 | 1824 - 494 pagini
...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'... | |
 | 1824 - 856 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 - 1830 - 374 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 pagini
...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 - 1836 - 384 pagini
...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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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. 
