Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq: Written by Himself, and Never Before Published. With an Appendix Containing Some of Cowper's Religious Letters, and Other Interesting Documents, Illustrative of the MemoirPhilo B. Pratt, 1817 - 119 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xi - under nameless ill, That yields not to the touch of human skill, Improve the kind occasion, understand A father's frown, and kiss his chastening hand. To thee the day-spring, and the blaze of noon. The purple evening 1 , and resplendent moon, The stars that, sprinkled o'er the vault of night. Seem drops descending
الصفحة 26 - strictest scrutiny. All the horror of my fears and perplexities now returned .- a thunderbolt would have been as welcome to me, as this intelligence. I knew, to demonstration, that upon these terms, the clerkship of the journals was no place for me. To require my attendance at the bar of the House, that I might there
الصفحة 26 - the interest of my friend, the causes of his choice, and my own reputation and circumstances, all urged me forward : all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They, whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horror of my situation
الصفحة 43 - had been in a fit. I sent her to a friend, to whom I related the whole affair, and dispatched — him to my kinsman, at the coffee-house. As soon as the latter arrived, I pointed to the broken garter, which lay in the middle of the room ; and apprized him also of the attempt I
الصفحة 77 - as I do to you. A letter upon any other subject is more insipid to me than ever my task was, when a school-boy ; and I say not this in vain glory, God forbid ! but to show you what the Almighty, whose name 1 am unworthy to mention, has done for me, the chief of
الصفحة 65 - was the goodness of the Lord to me, that he. gave me " the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness ;" and though my voice was silent, being
الصفحة 77 - contain the astonishing particulars of it. If we ever meet again in this world, I will relate them to you by word of mouth ; if not, they will serve for the subject of a conference in the next, where I doubt not I shall remember and record them with a gratitude better suited to the subject.
الصفحة xii - with delights unfelt before, Impart to things inanimate a voice, And bid her mountains and her hills rejoice ; The sound shall run along the winding vales, And thou enjoy an Eden, ere it fails.
الصفحة 43 - of strangulation ; for it was not attended with the sensation of a bruise, as it must have been, had I, in my fall, received one in so tender a part. And 1 rather think the circle round my neck was owing to the same cause; for the part was not excoriated, nor at all in pain.
الصفحة 24 - to find an air of deep melancholy in all I said or did. Having been harassed in this manner by day and night, for the space of a week, perplexed between the apparent folly of casting away the only visible chance I had of being well provided for, and