At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. William Cowper - Page 128by Marion Harland - 1899 - 237 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 494 pages
...own views on one of «••» do much tow«nU d'""'1" "' . • • • i his pnncipal works :— " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusemem. Poetry, above all things, is useful of melancholv thoughts, which, »W»" „„, ffcqi emp-|oy.djsare'... | |
| English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...contemplation, though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." Again, speaking of his poetic studies : "At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...things, is useful to me in this respect. While I am in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is irksome,... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works : — " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...all things, is useful to me in this respect. While 1 am held in pursuit of pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 598 pages
...poet applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works: — " At this- season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such аз may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in this respect. While... | |
| 1824 - 624 pages
...poet applied his art ; and the other, as explaining his own views on one of his principal works : — "At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no *asy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1830 - 374 pages
...poetry. Of this he was fully sensible, when he remarked to Mr. Newton, in December in the same year : " At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...mind like mine to divert it from sad subjects, and to fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement. Poetry, above all things, is useful to me in... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 376 pages
...called popularity, yet when a judicious friend claps me on the back, I own I find it an encouragement. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pur* The Verses alluded to appear to have been separated from the letter. suit of pretty images, or... | |
| William Cowper, William Hayley - 1835 - 372 pages
...called popularity, yet when a judicious friend claps me on the back, I own I find it an encouragement. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pur* i'be Verses alluded to appear to have been separated from the letter. suit of pretty images, or... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 378 pages
...called popularity, yet when a judicious friend claps me on the back, I own I find it an encouragement. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...to me in this respect. While I am held in pursuit bf pretty images, or a pretty way of expressing them, I forget every thing that is irksome, and, like... | |
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1836 - 388 pages
...called popularity, yet when a judicious friend claps me on the back, I own I find it an encouragement. At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable...is useful to me in this respect. While I am held in pur* The Verses alluded to appear to have been separated from the letter. suit of pretty images, or... | |
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