The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... write verses , being moved thereto , he tells us , by a copy of the Faerie Queene , which lay in his mother's parlor , and which he read until it filled his brain , he says , " with such chimes of verse as never since have left ringing ...
... write verses , being moved thereto , he tells us , by a copy of the Faerie Queene , which lay in his mother's parlor , and which he read until it filled his brain , he says , " with such chimes of verse as never since have left ringing ...
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... writing years after , records the characteristics of his men- tal condition at this time : COWPER'S THIRD PERIOD OF INSANITY . I was suddenly reduced from my wonted rate of under- standing to an almost childish imbecility . I did not ...
... writing years after , records the characteristics of his men- tal condition at this time : COWPER'S THIRD PERIOD OF INSANITY . I was suddenly reduced from my wonted rate of under- standing to an almost childish imbecility . I did not ...
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... writing blank verse , giving him as a subject the Sofa on which she happened to be sit- ting . The result was the poem entitled The Task , which extended far beyond what had been thought of by either the poet or his friend . It was pub ...
... writing blank verse , giving him as a subject the Sofa on which she happened to be sit- ting . The result was the poem entitled The Task , which extended far beyond what had been thought of by either the poet or his friend . It was pub ...
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... writing of the touching poem , one of the best of all which Cowper wrote . In the next year Mary Unwin had an attack of paralysis , which left her feeble in body , impaired in mind , and querulous in temper . Cowper failed too . He had ...
... writing of the touching poem , one of the best of all which Cowper wrote . In the next year Mary Unwin had an attack of paralysis , which left her feeble in body , impaired in mind , and querulous in temper . Cowper failed too . He had ...
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... Write , if thou canst , one Letter from the Shades , One , and only one , charged with deep regret , That thy worst part - thy principles - live yet ; One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind ...
... Write , if thou canst , one Letter from the Shades , One , and only one , charged with deep regret , That thy worst part - thy principles - live yet ; One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind ...
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Page 31 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
Page 225 - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
Page 20 - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
Page 24 - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
Page 226 - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
Page 26 - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
Page 29 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Page 40 - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
Page 49 - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
Page 34 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.