In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... effect of Calvinism , " though one can presumably say something useful about the effects on that cast of a strong element of Calvinism . As everyone knows ( and as William James showed so thoroughly in The Varie- ties of Religious ...
... effect of Calvinism , " though one can presumably say something useful about the effects on that cast of a strong element of Calvinism . As everyone knows ( and as William James showed so thoroughly in The Varie- ties of Religious ...
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... effect of grace , he writes that Man , on the dubious waves of error toss'd , His ship half founder'd and his compass lost , Sees , far as human optics may command , A sleeping fog , and fancies it dry land : Spreads all his canvass ...
... effect of grace , he writes that Man , on the dubious waves of error toss'd , His ship half founder'd and his compass lost , Sees , far as human optics may command , A sleeping fog , and fancies it dry land : Spreads all his canvass ...
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... he seems to have experimented a trifle metrically , but not nearly so drastically as his con- temporary Blake or his romantic successors . But most reveal- ing of all is the effect of Cowper's mental attitudes [ 164 ] IN SEARCH OF ...
... he seems to have experimented a trifle metrically , but not nearly so drastically as his con- temporary Blake or his romantic successors . But most reveal- ing of all is the effect of Cowper's mental attitudes [ 164 ] IN SEARCH OF ...
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