In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... hope of salvation is like a felon pardoned at the last moment ( " Hope , " 712- 31 ) . It is , note again , the arbitrariness of his Calvinism that he stresses here , as he does also in his " Spiritual Diary " and in a letter to Newton ...
... hope of salvation is like a felon pardoned at the last moment ( " Hope , " 712- 31 ) . It is , note again , the arbitrariness of his Calvinism that he stresses here , as he does also in his " Spiritual Diary " and in a letter to Newton ...
Page 65
... Hope , as an anchor firm and sure , holds fast The Christian vessel , and defies the blast . ( " Hope , " 167-8 ) The same point is made in the previously quoted “ Human Frailty ” and in “ A Reflection on the Foregoing Ode , ” an ...
... Hope , as an anchor firm and sure , holds fast The Christian vessel , and defies the blast . ( " Hope , " 167-8 ) The same point is made in the previously quoted “ Human Frailty ” and in “ A Reflection on the Foregoing Ode , ” an ...
Page 84
... Hope , " 181-2 ) [ Men ] Insist on , as if each were his own pope , Forgiveness , and the privilege of hope . ( " Hope , " 213-4 ) Man has not achieved his boasted advance from brutality : [ 84 ] IN SEARCH OF STABILITY.
... Hope , " 181-2 ) [ Men ] Insist on , as if each were his own pope , Forgiveness , and the privilege of hope . ( " Hope , " 213-4 ) Man has not achieved his boasted advance from brutality : [ 84 ] IN SEARCH OF STABILITY.
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