 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 Seiten
...things. Then, too, there was no other distinguished poet on the field to compete with him. He says : " My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them....delineations of the heart are from my own experience." Southey says : " Were I to say, that a poet finds his best advisers among his female friends, it would... | |
 | Adam White - 1870 - 378 Seiten
...he mourned, rise before us as though we had known and loved them too. As Cowper himself declares, ' My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...experience, not one of them borrowed from books.' '' HAIRS OR HARES ! A gentleman on circuit, narrating to Lord Norbury some extravagant feat in sporting,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 340 Seiten
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience;...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 330 Seiten
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 346 Seiten
...entitle me to nothing but a share in one common oblivion with them all.' And once more, to Unwin (1784): 'My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers I have imitated nobody, though sometimes perhaps there may be an apparent resemblance, because at the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 Seiten
...the Rev. W. Uuwin (Letter 175):— " My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them secondhand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of them borrowed from hooks, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as much as I could (for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1877 - 462 Seiten
...concessions I can, that I may please them ; but I will not please them at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...he writes of The Task, ' are all from nature ; — not one 1 Jan 5, 1 78 a. Jan. il, 1782. — . , . of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder 'and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 Seiten
...descriptions,' he writes of The Task, ' are all from nature ; — not one 1 Jan. 5, 1782. . 2 Jan. 17, 1782. of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart...the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as I could (for blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 Seiten
...in spite of ourselves, just in the same proportion as we admire.' Again, referring to the Task : ' My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...delineations of the heart are from my own experience; net one of them borrowed from b*oks, or in the least degree conjectural.' Objects hitherto regarded... | |
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My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. 
