In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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Page 54
... activities , but takes great care , possibly because of his awareness of the danger of complete apathy ( to which he succumbed for most of his last five years ) , to know what these activities are , providing he is safe from them . A ...
... activities , but takes great care , possibly because of his awareness of the danger of complete apathy ( to which he succumbed for most of his last five years ) , to know what these activities are , providing he is safe from them . A ...
Page 117
... activities of life , he distinguishes the requirements of any particular form from the less attractive traditional limitations imposed on other human activities ; at the same time , stirred by his undercurrent of revolt , he objects to ...
... activities of life , he distinguishes the requirements of any particular form from the less attractive traditional limitations imposed on other human activities ; at the same time , stirred by his undercurrent of revolt , he objects to ...
Page 132
... activities , mis- use the country , thereby re - enacting Adam's fall . Among these are hunters , essentially brutes ( though unnatural ones ) and pleasure - seekers : the distortedly brutalized and the over - civilized . Real nature ...
... activities , mis- use the country , thereby re - enacting Adam's fall . Among these are hunters , essentially brutes ( though unnatural ones ) and pleasure - seekers : the distortedly brutalized and the over - civilized . Real nature ...
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