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acquaintance Adieu admire affectionate agreeable amuse answer believe blank verse Bodham brother called comfort Cowper dear friend DEAR FRIEND-I dearest cousin delightful Eartham expect favour February 27 feel FRIEND-I garden Gayhurst gentleman give glad greenhouse hand happy hear Homer honour hope Iliad Isle of Thanet John Gilpin JOHN NEWTON Johnson JOSEPH HILL LADY HESKETH lately least less letter live LODGE Margate mind morning Netley Abbey never Newport Pagnell night obliged occasion Olney parlour perhaps pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poor possible present purpose reason received remember rhyme seems seen sent sorry spirits suffered suppose sure taste tell thank thee things thought thousand Throckmorton Tibullus tion truth verse W. C. TO JOSEPH walk Weston WESTON UNDERWOOD WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM UNWIN wish write wrote yesterday
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Page 87 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 41 - Richard returned, almost breathless, with the following account. That soon after he began to run, he left Tom behind him, and came in sight of a most numerous hunt of men, women, children, and dogs ; that he did his best to keep back the dogs, and presently outstripped...
Page 46 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," — these irregular and prodigious vagaries seemed to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Page 159 - It is a great thing to be indeed a poet, and does not happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill,' the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet : I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last time with more pleasure than the first. The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken that task, for which he was entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded him an opportunity to traduce him.
Page 15 - Rousseau's description of an English morning; such are the mornings I spend with these good people; and the evenings differ from them in nothing, except that they are still more snug, and quieter. Now I know them, I wonder that I liked Huntingdon so well before I knew them, and am apt to think I should find every place disagreeable, that had not an Unwin belonging to it.