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...Lady Austen, and soon there grew up a close friendship. Her lively spirits drove the melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper...
...these social questions of which he spoke was the Indian question. This, said he, had shown the theory of ethics worked out on a large field and with dramatic interest, and the theory had been triumphantly sustained. The white man at first sought only his self-interest and drove the Indian away; then, to quell rebellion, he must pacify him with reservations: now he has come to realize that this is unjust to both sides, - the Indian is kept out of the American life, and the white man is kept out of the Indian's land. The result is that...
...steps of one of the barges. After cheering every man on the team, "three big ones" were given for Arthur Cumnock and Perry Trafford. The substitutes, the captain of the second eleven, J. H. Sears, Cranston, Crosby and Dr. Conant were all cheered vociferously; and as the barges drove off, the crowd, led by K. Fairbank L. S., sent after them cheer after cheer for Harvard. The proceedings ended with a "motley yell" led by J. A. Wilder...
Hoppin started out well by winning the first set, but in the next he went to pieces and repeatedly drove the balls into the net and outside. However he took a brace after the third set and by good playing won the next two sets and the match...
...innovation of starting from the college yard was proved a success, for the barges drove out the Johnson gate and the great crowd hurried across the yard and cheered again and again as they drove by, the last three times nine for Harvard continuing until the team had disappeared around the corner by Beck...