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Cowper's ease appeared his most imitable charm, but ease aggraved is insipidity. His occasional negligences, his disciples adopted uniformly. In Cowper, there might sometimes be carelessness in the verse, but the verse itself was sustained by the vigor of the sentiment.
Charles Cowan's privately printed Reminiscences for Scott's recollections of his visit to Portsmouth in 1816, and his stories, of the wonders he had seen, to the little boy at his side. Compare Froude's History, vol. iv. p. 424. Mr. Horace Smith, one of the authors of Rejected Addresses. An anonymous novel, published some years earlier in 4 vols. 12mo. Cowper's Monody. November 1.
Lord Erpingham was a Whig of the old school: he thought the Tory boroughs ought to be thrown open. He was generally considered a sensible man. He had read Blackstone, Montesquieu, Cowper's Poems, and The Rambler; and he was always heard with great attention in the House of Lords. In his moral character he was a bon Vivant, as far as wine is concerned; for choice eating he cared nothing.
And Cowper's verse, wherein the poet says: "Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are Free," and, after expressing his solicitude to have this true of America, as it already was true of the District of Columbia, he proceeded to say: "The gentleman from Kentucky says he has a niche for Abraham Lincoln. Where is it? He pointed upward!
And bound in blue and gold, but elaborately papered up, Cowper's Poems, a gift from my father in the days of courtship: sacred treasure; which not even I had the privilege to touch, and which my mother took out only in the great crosses and trials of conjugal life, whenever some words less kind than usual had dropped unawares from her scholar's absent lips.
And bound in blue and gold, but elaborately papered up, Cowper's Poems, a gift from my father in the days of courtship: sacred treasure; which not even I had the privilege to touch, and which my mother took out only in the great crosses and trials of conjugal life, whenever some words less kind than usual had dropped unawares from her scholar's absent lips.
This poem has the dignity of "Lycidas" without its refrigerating classicism, and with all the tenderness of Cowper's lines on the receipt of his mother's picture. It may well compare with others of the finest memorial poems in the language, with Shelley's "Adonais," and Matthew Arnold's "Thyrsis," leaving out of view Tennyson's "In Memoriam" as of wider scope and larger pattern.
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It bears the carved presentment of a lamb, a cross, and two doves drinking. At this time a stone coffin lid, and a hidden fourteenth-century niche in the porch were also discovered. In the chancel is a memorial to James Hurdis, formerly Vicar of the parish, the author of The Village Curate, which has been likened to Cowper's Task; the verses are full of shrewd wit and local colour.
He had his name marked for him, and a will directing his own. He was not the same man. But I particularly told him to send me a lawyer first of all. "Yes, yes!" he said, fidgeting to go, "to Major Cowper's. Let me write his address." "And a solicitor," I said. "Send him to me on your way there." "Yes, yes," he said, "I shall be able to be of use to the solicitor.
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