In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... death . In his Adelphi ( written in 1770 but not published until 1802 , by John Newton ) 11 Cowper describes John's conversion during his last illness — a conversion which Cow- per was instrumental in accomplishing and which , with its ...
... death . In his Adelphi ( written in 1770 but not published until 1802 , by John Newton ) 11 Cowper describes John's conversion during his last illness — a conversion which Cow- per was instrumental in accomplishing and which , with its ...
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... death , and with death to the judgment which he feared because he knew it to be adverse.3 The inchoate period before his first madness took on for him , in retrospect , the form of a resistless tide : " I looked forward to the ...
... death , and with death to the judgment which he feared because he knew it to be adverse.3 The inchoate period before his first madness took on for him , in retrospect , the form of a resistless tide : " I looked forward to the ...
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... death . There is no spleen , no intolerable boredom in the coun- try , and so there is no need to develop such perverse activi- ties as gambling to waste one's life with ( this , of course , is the vicious reverse of the coin which ...
... death . There is no spleen , no intolerable boredom in the coun- try , and so there is no need to develop such perverse activi- ties as gambling to waste one's life with ( this , of course , is the vicious reverse of the coin which ...
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