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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. "
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Page 54
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Life of William Cowper, Esq

Thomas Taylor - 1843 - 316 pages
...the concessions I can that I may please them, but 1 will not do this at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature ; not one of them...my own experience ; not one of them borrowed from bocks, or in the least degree conjectural." The close of the year 1784, witnessed the completion of...
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The Christian Library: Comrising the Following Standard Works in Religious ...

1851 - 592 pages
...the concessions I can that I may please them, but I will not do this at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." The close of the year 1784, witnessed the completion of this extensive performance, and the commencement...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles ...

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 572 pages
...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...experience, not one of them borrowed from "books."* He could not, indeed, like poets of the highest order, — like Milton, for example, or like Dante,...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...will not please them at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature ; not •ne of them second-handed. My delineations of the heart...experience; not one of them borrowed from books, or in :he least degree conjectural. In my nnm» ners, which I varied as much as I could, (for i>lank verse...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...the expense of tittle of an i, I will deny myself that pleasure, and m- conscience. My deseriptions are all from nature. Not one of them second-handed....of the heart are from my own experience. Not one of thera borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...will not please them at the expense of my conscience. My descriptions are all from nature. Not.one of them second-handed. My delineations of the , heart are from my own experience. Not one them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I have varied as...
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History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of ..., Volume 6

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 pages
...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 "...experience, not one of them borrowed " from books." * He could not, indeed, like poets of the •highest order, — like Milton, for example, or like Dante,...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...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 "...experience, not one of them borrowed " from books."* He could not, indeed, like poets of the highest order, — like Milton, for example, or like Dante,...
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The Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1853 - 544 pages
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expense of conscience. My descriptions are all from nature ; — not one...heart are from my own experience ; — not one of them are borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much...
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Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper

George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 438 pages
...he was by no means so unhappy as he sometimes seems, in his letters. " My descriptions," says he, " are all from nature ; not one of them secondhanded....borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." Now the possessor of such an experience as Cowper frequently delineates can not be called unhappy,...
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