...verse. At last ha promised to comply, if she would furnish him with a subject. " Oh ! " answered she, " you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon any ; write upon this sofa." The poet obeyed, and "The Task," by which his reputation was at once established, was the result. "...

...promised if she furnished him with a subject to comply with her request. " Oh ! " said Lady Austen, " you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon any ; write upon this sofa." From the "sofa," he ranges to a variety of subjects, charming and graceful in style, and musical with...

...undertake the task, but finally said that he would if she would furnish a subject. "Oh ! " she replied, " you can never be in want of a subject; you can write upon anything : write upon—this so/a." He complied ; and again we .are indebted to Lady Austin for Cowper's...

...something in blank verse. When at last he consented to gratify her, and desired a theme, she replied, " Oh, you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon any. Write upon this sofa !" Her suggestion was accepted. "The Sofa" constitutes the subject of the first book of the poem. To...

...something in blank verse. When at last he consented to gratify her, and desired a theme, she replied, " Oh, you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon any. Write upon this sofa !" Her suggestion was accepted. "The Sofa" constitutes the subject of the first book of the poem. To...

...She urged him so often that at last he said he would if she gave him the subject. She replied, "Oh, you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon anything — write upon this sofa." He at once decided that he would do so, and The Task was commenced...

...last he promised to comply with her request if she would give him a subject. " Oh," she replied, " you can never be in want of a subject; you can write upon any — write upon this sofa !" Consequently upon that sofa he wrote. /"> OWPER'S great poem, the immortal " Task," I was commenced...

...comply with her request, on condition that she would furnish him with a subject. " O ! " she replied, " you can never be in want of a subject. You can write upon any— write upon this sofa ! " The subject, no doubt, seemed a strange one ; yet he kept his word ; and thus, from a hint thrown...

...at last he promised to comply with her request, if she would give him a subject. "Oh," she replied, "you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write upon any : write upon this sofa." " The answer," says Southey, " was made with a woman's readiness, and the capabilities of such a theme...

...Milton had taught her to love. When he replied that she must find a subject for him, she said, ' Oh ! you can never be in want of a subject ; you can write on any, — write upon this Sofa.' The ' task ' thus imposed was accepted, and fulfilled — all the...