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... feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England , exulting in his spotless fame , Ranks with her dearest sons his favorite name ; Sense , fancy ...
... feel Of talents , dignified by sacred zeal , Here , to devotion's bard devoutly just , Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust ! England , exulting in his spotless fame , Ranks with her dearest sons his favorite name ; Sense , fancy ...
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... feeling of intimacy , a kind of domestic confidence in his readers , he made his works household words . -W . B. O. PEABODY , North American Review for January , 1834 . BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM BIOGRAPHY . ------- William Cowper , by ...
... feeling of intimacy , a kind of domestic confidence in his readers , he made his works household words . -W . B. O. PEABODY , North American Review for January , 1834 . BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM BIOGRAPHY . ------- William Cowper , by ...
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... feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing , My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , ° To breathe a second spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast ...
... feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow , As , waving fresh their gladsome wing , My weary soul they seem to soothe , And , redolent of joy and youth , ° To breathe a second spring . Say , father Thames , for thou hast ...
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... feel , and know myself a Man . 1555 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields ...
... feel , and know myself a Man . 1555 45 SONNET ON THE DEATH OF MR . RICHARD WEST IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine , And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant ° join ; Or cheerful fields ...
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... feel , with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , The event presages , and explores the cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by ...
... feel , with memory to retain , They follow pleasure , and they fly from pain ; Their judgment mends the plan their fancy draws , The event presages , and explores the cause ; The soft returns of gratitude they know , By fraud elude , by ...
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Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cæsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden golden reign grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cæsar king Lady liberty live lyre Macaulay's Essay Mary Milton mind morn Muse ne'er never night nymphs o'er Odin once Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost peace Pindar pleasure Poems poet poetry praise PROPHETESS Queen scene Scott's shade Shakespeare's sing skies sleep smile song soon sorrow soul sound spirit spring stanza sweet taste tear thee thine Thomas Gray thought Twas verse voice Welsh wild William Cowper wind wonder written wrote