 | 1824 - 494 pages
...own views on one of «••» do much tow«nU d'""'1" "' . • • • i his pnncipal works :— " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusemem. Poetry, above all things, is useful of melancholv thoughts, which, »W»" „„, ffcqi emp-|oy.djsare'... | |
 | William Cowper - Authors, English - 1824 - 436 pages
...called popularity, yet when a judicious friend claps me on the back, I own I find it an encouragement. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1824 - 570 pages
...contemplations, though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' Again, in another letter, he says : ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy, uncomfortable...things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works : — " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...all things, is useful to me in this respect. While 1 am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...poet applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works: — " At this- season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such аз may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in this respect. While... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...poet applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works : — "At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no *asy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...right side, retains all its color on the wrong. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy and uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the...things, 'is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...poetry. Of this he was fully sensible, when he remarked to Mr. Newton, in December in the same year : " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...mind like mine to divert it from sad subjects, and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...right side, retains all its colour on the wrong. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy and uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the...things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...right side, retains all its colour on the wrong. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy and uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the...things, is useful to me, in this respect. While I am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is... | |
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At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. 
