The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper: With an Introductory Letter to the Right Honorable Earl Cowper, Volume 1W. Pelham, Manning & Loring, and E. Lincoln, 1803 |
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... such a nature , as to re- quire perpetual caution , as I advanced : I mean the danger of being led , in writing as the Biographer of my friend , to Speak infinitely too much of myself . To avoid the offenfive failing of egotism , I had ...
... such a nature , as to re- quire perpetual caution , as I advanced : I mean the danger of being led , in writing as the Biographer of my friend , to Speak infinitely too much of myself . To avoid the offenfive failing of egotism , I had ...
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... Such honours to thee as my numbers may . The parent , whofe merits are fo feelingly recorded by the filial tenderness of the Poet , was Ann daughter of Roger Donne , Efq . of Ludham Hall , in Norfolk . This lady , whofe family is faid ...
... Such honours to thee as my numbers may . The parent , whofe merits are fo feelingly recorded by the filial tenderness of the Poet , was Ann daughter of Roger Donne , Efq . of Ludham Hall , in Norfolk . This lady , whofe family is faid ...
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... Such is that heart : -But while the Mufe Thy theme , O Richardson , pursues , Her feebler fpirits faint : She cannot reach , and would not wrong That fubject for an angel's fong , The hero , and the faint . 33 His early turn to moralize ...
... Such is that heart : -But while the Mufe Thy theme , O Richardson , pursues , Her feebler fpirits faint : She cannot reach , and would not wrong That fubject for an angel's fong , The hero , and the faint . 33 His early turn to moralize ...
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... such fingular fenfibility . The conflict between the wishes of juft affectionate ambition , and the terrors of diffidence , fo entirely over- whelmed his health and faculties , that after two learned and benevolent Divines ( Mr. John ...
... such fingular fenfibility . The conflict between the wishes of juft affectionate ambition , and the terrors of diffidence , fo entirely over- whelmed his health and faculties , that after two learned and benevolent Divines ( Mr. John ...
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... in all respects worthy of such a moth- er , the most amiable young man I ever knew . His nat- ural and acquired endowments are very confiderable , and as to his virtues , I need only fay 46 LIFE OF COWPER . To Jofeph Hill, To Mrs Cowper.
... in all respects worthy of such a moth- er , the most amiable young man I ever knew . His nat- ural and acquired endowments are very confiderable , and as to his virtues , I need only fay 46 LIFE OF COWPER . To Jofeph Hill, To Mrs Cowper.
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