 The world could not have furnished you with a present so acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have...  The life and letters of William Cowper - Page 228by William Cowper - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and received it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had its dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it and hung it where it is the last object... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1905 - 288 pages
...acceptable to me, as the picture you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits...first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I completed my sixth year ; yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witness of the great fidelity... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1905 - 288 pages
...acceptable to me, as the picture you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits...first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I completed my sixth year ; yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witness of the great fidelity... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pages
...acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat akin to what I should have felt had its dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 386 pages
...acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits...the first on which I open my eyes in the morning. . . . There is in me, I believe, more of the Donne than of the Cowper ; and though I love all of both... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...acceptable to me as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits...where it is the last object that I see at night and . . . the first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I had completed my sixth year,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 444 pages
...acceptable to me, as the picture which you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last, and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits...have felt, had the dear original presented herself to rny embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object that I see at night, and, of course,... | |
 | James Alexander Roy - 1914 - 196 pages
...acceptable to me as the picture you have so kindly sent me. I received it the night before last and viewed it with a trepidation of nerves and spirits,...dear original presented herself to my embraces. ... I remember, too, a multitude of the maternal tendernesses which I received from her, and which have endeared... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 438 pages
...as fondly on the cherished features as if he had just mourned her death. " I viewed it," he says, " with a trepidation of nerves and spirits somewhat...kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines " On the... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1921 - 444 pages
...dear original presented herself to my embraces. I kissed it, and hung it where it is the last object I see at night, and of course the first on which I open my eyes in the morning." His lines " On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture " form one of the most touching elegies in the language.... | |
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