LettersBaldwin and Cradock, 1836 |
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able Adieu affectionate afford answer arrived believe blank verse Bodham breakfast brother Catharina comfort compliments Courtenay cousin COWPER dæmon DEAR FRIEND DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR DEAREST COZ DEAREST JOHNNY Eartham expect favour feel Frog give glad happy heard heart Homer honour hope HURDIS Iliad JOHN JOHNSON JOHN NEWTON John Throckmorton JOSEPH HILL journey July 27 kind labour LADY HESKETH lately learned least letter live Lord LORD THURLOW melancholy Milton mind morning neighbour never obliged occasion opportunity perhaps Pertenhall pleased pleasure poem poet present reason received rejoice rhyme Romney SAMUEL ROSE seems seen sent sincerely sister soon spirits suffered suppose tell thank thee thing thou told translation truly Unwin verses W. C. MY DEAR W. C. TO LADY W. C. TO WILLIAM walk Weston Underwood Whig WILLIAM COWPER WILLIAM HAYLEY wish write yesterday
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Seite 265 - I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money. I am not rich enough to afford much in good works, and so am obliged to be cunning and make the most of a little.
Seite 264 - But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Seite 279 - The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary; And I pray you, my masters, be merry, Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
Seite 265 - ... case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress you must pay me by lending this sum to him ; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity.
Seite 140 - I have ever seen ; but which, dissipated as my powers of thought are at present, I will not undertake to describe. It shall suffice me to say that they occupy three sides of a hill, which in Buckinghamshire might well pass for a mountain, and from the summit of which is beheld a most magnificent landscape bounded by the sea, and in one part of it by the Isle of Wight, which may also be seen plainly from the window of the library in which I am writing.
Seite 63 - Free virtue should enthral to force or chance. Their song was partial, but the harmony (What could it less when spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience.
Seite 90 - I feel the loss of them, and shall feel it, since kinder or more friendly treatment I never can receive at any hands, than I have always found at theirs. But it has long been a foreseen change, and was, indeed, almost daily expected long before it happened. The desertion of the Hall, however, will not be total. The second brother, George, now Mr. Courtenay,* intends to reside there ; and with him, as with his elder brother, I have always been on terms the most agreeable. Such is this variable scene...
Seite 142 - The inland scene is equally beautiful, consisting of a large and deep valley well cultivated and enclosed by magnificent hills, all crowned with wood. I had for my part no conception that a poet could be the owner of such a Paradise 2'.
Seite 151 - The genius of that place suits me better, it has an air of snug concealment, in which a disposition like mine feels itself peculiarly gratified ; whereas here I see from every window, woods like forests, and hills like mountains, a wildness, in short, that rather increases my natural melancholy, and which were it not for the agreeables I find within, would soon convince me that mere change of place can avail me little.
Seite 293 - ... event, their attention is chiefly fixed upon the skill of the composer, in adapting the style of his music to the very solemn language and subject with which they are trifling. The king, however, out of his great clemency and compassion towards those who have no pitv for themselves, prevents them with his goodness.