Poems by William Cowper ...J. Johnson and Company, 1811 |
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الصفحة vi
... taste , in the exertions of wit , fancy , and genius , and in the esteem and converse of such persons as in these respects were most congenial with himself , he would have been happy.— But he was not . He wondered ( as thousands in a ...
... taste , in the exertions of wit , fancy , and genius , and in the esteem and converse of such persons as in these respects were most congenial with himself , he would have been happy.— But he was not . He wondered ( as thousands in a ...
الصفحة ix
... taste , and that those who are governed by it may not be discouraged at the very threshold from proceeding farther , is placed first . In most of the larger Poems which follow , his leading design is more explicitly avowed and PREFACE . ix.
... taste , and that those who are governed by it may not be discouraged at the very threshold from proceeding farther , is placed first . In most of the larger Poems which follow , his leading design is more explicitly avowed and PREFACE . ix.
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... taste , 160 His gall'ries with the works of art well grac❜d , To hear it call'd extravagance and waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humbled and confin'd the sphere ...
... taste , 160 His gall'ries with the works of art well grac❜d , To hear it call'd extravagance and waste ; If these attendants , and if such as these , Must follow royalty , then welcome ease ; However humbled and confin'd the sphere ...
الصفحة 27
... taste Is so refin'd , and delicate , and chaste , That verse , whatever fire the fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment ...
... taste Is so refin'd , and delicate , and chaste , That verse , whatever fire the fancy warms , Without a creamy smoothness has no charms . Thus , all success depending on an ear , And thinking I might purchase it too dear , If sentiment ...
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... taste ; But , when the second Charles assum'd the sway , And arts reviv'd beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forc'd into a curve , 621 The mind , releas'd from too constrain❜d a nerve , Flew to it's first position with a ...
... taste ; But , when the second Charles assum'd the sway , And arts reviv'd beneath a softer day , Then , like a bow long forc'd into a curve , 621 The mind , releas'd from too constrain❜d a nerve , Flew to it's first position with a ...
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