In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... heaven , and Cowper answered that " reason seems to require it so peremptorily , that a society without social intercourse seems to be a solecism and a con- tradiction in terms . . . . " ( Correspondence , I , 73 ) . Society , the ...
... heaven , and Cowper answered that " reason seems to require it so peremptorily , that a society without social intercourse seems to be a solecism and a con- tradiction in terms . . . . " ( Correspondence , I , 73 ) . Society , the ...
Page 144
... heaven , which God has reserved for those with grace . In this manner , as in any coherent work , a later section casts back illumination on a former , and this passage further emphasizes the paradisal quality of the garden . The saved ...
... heaven , which God has reserved for those with grace . In this manner , as in any coherent work , a later section casts back illumination on a former , and this passage further emphasizes the paradisal quality of the garden . The saved ...
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... heaven , properly exceed these limitations . Humbler , Cowper praises brute creation , hoping for at least the useful- ness of preventing some of man's tyrannical cruelty . Judgment Day is coming soon , the earth's groans are at last to ...
... heaven , properly exceed these limitations . Humbler , Cowper praises brute creation , hoping for at least the useful- ness of preventing some of man's tyrannical cruelty . Judgment Day is coming soon , the earth's groans are at last to ...
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