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... verse . He left the academy in 1749 . After spending a few months with his father at Great Berkhampstead , Cowper went to London , where he entered the home of Mr. Chapman , a xvi INTRODUCTION A Brief Life of William Cowper.
... verse . He left the academy in 1749 . After spending a few months with his father at Great Berkhampstead , Cowper went to London , where he entered the home of Mr. Chapman , a xvi INTRODUCTION A Brief Life of William Cowper.
Page xviii
... verse . From time to time he had written short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost ...
... verse . From time to time he had written short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost ...
Page xx
... verse every expression that would have been admitted in prose , and to take advantage of all the varieties with which our language could supply him . - LORD JEFFREY , Edinburgh Review for April , 1803 . His language has such a masculine ...
... verse every expression that would have been admitted in prose , and to take advantage of all the varieties with which our language could supply him . - LORD JEFFREY , Edinburgh Review for April , 1803 . His language has such a masculine ...
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... verse adorn again 125 Fierce war , and faithful love , o And truth severe , by fairy fiction drest . In buskined measures move Pale grief , and pleasing pain , With horror , tyrant of the throbbing breast . A voice , as of the cherub ...
... verse adorn again 125 Fierce war , and faithful love , o And truth severe , by fairy fiction drest . In buskined measures move Pale grief , and pleasing pain , With horror , tyrant of the throbbing breast . A voice , as of the cherub ...
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... , Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced , in accents dread , The thrilling verse that wakes the dead : 15 20 Till from out the hollow ground Slowly breathed a sullen THE DESCENT OF ODIN 31 The Descent of Odin.
... , Thrice he traced the Runic rhyme ; Thrice pronounced , in accents dread , The thrilling verse that wakes the dead : 15 20 Till from out the hollow ground Slowly breathed a sullen THE DESCENT OF ODIN 31 The Descent of Odin.
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Ęschylus Author's note awake bard beneath boast breath Cęsar cheer Comus death delight divine dream E'en earth Edited Edward Eirin Elegy English Eton College eyes Faerie Queene fame fancy favorite fear feel flowers glittering Gog and Magog golden grace Gray here quotes Gray quotes Gray's Gwynedd hand hast Hawthorne's heard heart Heaven High School human Iliad John Gilpin Julius Cęsar 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