The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations. With a Life of the Author by the Editor, Robert Southey (Volume 6); Letters - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150792620 ISBN 13: 9781150792625

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836. Excerpt: ... welcome to me than either your son William or any of yours. Would I could see you all at the lake side. I am happy that you are in health. May God keep you so. Except scratching now and then a letter as fast as I can do, I do nothing but translate. Ever yours, my dearest friend, WM. COWPER. TO SAMUEL ROSE, ESQ. My Dear Friend, Weston, Sept. 24,1789. You left us exactly at the wrong time. Had you stayed till now, you would have had the pleasure of hearing even my cousin say--" I am cold."--And the still greater pleasure of being warm yourself; for I have had a fire in the study ever since you went. It is the fault of our summers, that they are hardly ever warm or cold enough. Were they warmer, we should not want a fire; and were they colder, we should have one. I have twice seen and conversed with Mr. Jekyll. He is witty, intelligent, and agreeable beyond the common measure of men who are so. But it is the constant effect of a spirit of party to make those hateful to each other, who are truly amiable in themselves. Beau sends his love; he was melancholy the whole day after your departure. W. C. TO SAMUEL ROSE, ESQ. My Dear Friend, Weston, Oct. 4, 1789. The hamper is come, and come safe; and the contents I can affirm on my own knowledge are excellent. It chanced that another hamper and a hox came by the same conveyance, all which I unpacked and expounded in the hall; my cousin sitting, mean time, on the stairs, spectatress of the business. We diverted ourselves with. imagining the manner in which Homer would have described the scene. Detailed in his circumstantial way, it would have furnished materials for a paragraph of considerable length in an Odyssey. The straw-stuffd hamper with his ruthless steel He open'd, cutting sheer the' inserted cords, Which bou...

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