William Cowper

5 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 7 times in other books.

Books by William Cowper

The Art of Public Speaking on The Task: “Where Memory slept. --WILLIAM COWPER, _The Task_.”
Mansfield Park on The Task: “Does it not make you think of Cowper? ‘Ye fallen avenues, once more I mourn your fate unmerited.’”
The Common Reader: Second Series on The Task: “It is this that makes passages in The Task like clear windows let into the prosaic fabric of the rest.”
The Common Reader: Second Series on John Gilpin: “...told him, just as he was sinking into one of his fits of melancholy, the story of John Gilpin, so that he leapt out of bed, shaking with laughter.”
Moby-Dick on On the Queen's Visit to London: “To express unwieldy joy.” —_Cowper, on the Queen’s Visit to London_.”
Two Years Before the Mast on Table Talk: “Then his lines to Mary, his address to the jackdaw, and a short extract from Table Talk;”
Michael Strogoff on The Diverting History of John Gilpin: “John Gilpin was a citizen of credit and renown; a train-band captain eke was he of famous London town.”