...as none but they who have felt the same can have the least conception of. Day and night," he says, " I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." While thus enduring the " horror of darkness," he meets with Herbert's potrfe Twelve long years in...

...its gloom over his mind. "I was strnck," he says, "with snch a dejection of spirits as none hnt they who have felt the same can have the least conception...rack; lying down in horror and rising up in despair." A twelvemonth spent in this state is sncceeded hy a state of constant humiliation and prayer; then...

...Bar 14th June, 1754. Here a morbid melancholy began to manifest itself. " Day and night," he says, " I was upon the rack, lying down in horror and rising up in despair." In this state of mind he met with Herbert's poems, of which he says : " Gothic and uncouth as they...

...struck, not long after my settlement in the Temple, with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same can have the least conception...rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair. I presently lost all relish for those studies to which I had before been closely attached; the classics...

..." I was struck with such dejection of spirits as none but they who have felt the sarn^ ca^ have any conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." Having been in this dreadful situation near a twelvemonth, he applied himself to prayer and experienced...

..." I was struck with such dejection of spirits as none but they who have felt the same can have any conception of. Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." Having been in this dreadful situation near a twelvemonth, he applied himself to prayer and experienced...

...became more and more subject to nervous depression; " day and night," such are his own strong words, " I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." Yet all the time he sought not the consolation which the Gospel could alone afford ; years passed over...

...suffer so dreadfully. " I was struck," he says, " with such a dejection of spirits, as none but they who have felt the same can have the least conception...rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair." This despondency lasted for nearly twelve months. Cowper's melancholy has been attributed to his religious...

...the horrible malady of the nerves and the soul, which leads to suicide, Puritanism, and madness. ' Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair.' 3 The evil changed form, diminished, but did not leave him. As he had only a small fortune, though...

...the horrible malady of the nerves and the soul, •which leads to suicide, Puritanism, and madness. ' Day and night I was upon the rack, lying down in horror, and rising up in despair.' * The evil changed form, diminished, but did not leave him. As he bad only a small fortune, though...