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2 days ago · The Morning Dream. 'Twas in the glad season of spring, Asleep at the dawn of the day, I dream'd what I cannot but sing, So pleasant it seem'd as I lay. I dream'd that, on ocean afloat, Far hence to the westward I sail'd, While the billows high lifted the boat, And the fresh -blowing breeze never fail'd. In the steerage a woman I saw, Such at ...
Sep 29, 2024 · Ye clergy, while your orbit is your place, Lights of the world and stars of human race; But, if eccentric ye forsake your sphere, Prodigies ominous and view'd with fear: The comet's baneful influence is a dream; Yours real, and pernicious in the extreme.
1 day ago · WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. eldest son of Sir William Cowper, bart. of Ratling-court, in Nonington, having been made lord-keeper of the great seal in 1705, was afterwards by letters patent, dated Dec. 14, 1706, created lord Cowper, baron Cowper of Wingham; and in 1709, was declared lord chancellor.
3 days ago · Sir William Cowper. Grandson (fn. 6) of John Cowper (Alderman, Sheriff 1551–2), great-grandfather of the first Earl Cowper (Lord Chancellor) and ancestor of the succeeding Earls and of William Cowper the poet.
5 days ago · He died in 1723, and was buried at Hertingfordbury, being succeeded by his eldest son William, second earl Cowper, and viscount Fordwich, who died in 1764, having some time before prefixed the surname and arms of Clavering to his own, according to the will of his mother's brother.
19 hours ago · Cowper, William: 1731–1800, poet and hymnodist: 1791: London, J. Johnson Achilles sing, O Goddess! Peleus' son; His wrath pernicious, who ten thousand woes [17]
4 days ago · Trainbands or Trained Bands were companies of militia in England or the Americas, [1][2][3] first organized in the 16th century and dissolved in the 18th. The term was used after this time to describe the London militia. In the early American colonies the trainband was the most basic tactical unit. [4]
