 | George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 360 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 second-handed....of them borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectured." Now, the possessor of such an experience as Cowper frequently delineates cannot be called... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 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 of them...heart are from my own experience ; not one of them is borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, -which I varied as much... | |
 | William Cowper, James Robert Boyd - 1857 - 476 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 of them...heart are from my own experience ; not one of them is borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, which I varied as much as... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 pages
...had known and loved them too. As Cowper himself declares, "My descriptions are all from nature, %iot one of " them second-handed. My delineations of the...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,... | |
 | 1860 - 784 pages
...concessions I can, that I may please them, but I will not please them at the expense of ray conscience. on the whole, is exceeded. We are the tenants ; but varied as much as I could, (f'o; blank verse without variety of numbers is no better than bladder and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 pages
...poetic interest. " My descriptions," lie said, " are all from nature : not one of them second-hand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural." The religious, social, and political opinions interspersed were all upon the side of truth, goodness,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 pages
...poetic interest. ' My descriptions,' he said, ' are all from nature : not one of them second-hand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...borrowed from books, or in the least degree conjectural.' The religious, social, and political opinions interspersed were all upon the side of truth, goodness,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 pages
...poetic interest. ' My descriptions,' he said, ' are all from nature : not one of them second-hand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience : not one of them borrowed from hooks, or in the least degree conjectural.' The religious, social, and political opinions interspersed... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...every page. There is no poem which can boast of greater originality. Truly does Cowper declare : — " My descriptions are all from nature, not one of them...experience, not one of them borrowed from books." Strange it is, that he should apparently have preferred to "The Task" his translation of Homer, which... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1869 - 608 pages
...he had laid down his pen : " My descriptions are all from nature ; — not one of them second-hand. My delineations of the heart are from my own experience...or in the least degree conjectural. In my numbers, I have imitated nobody, though there may be an apparent resemblance ; because at the same time that... | |
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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. 
