In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... storm . Passional pleasure ( again often a storm ) , " The tempest of tumultuary joys , " will not gain mercy or heaven , he warns in " Table Talk " ( 409 ) . Conversely , one kind of storm , deriving from a pas- sion for virtue , can ...
... storm . Passional pleasure ( again often a storm ) , " The tempest of tumultuary joys , " will not gain mercy or heaven , he warns in " Table Talk " ( 409 ) . Conversely , one kind of storm , deriving from a pas- sion for virtue , can ...
Page 65
... storm , To frown and roar , and shake his feeble form . ( " Hope , " 183-6 ) By implication , the world of business , which Cowper calls a dull routine and a " senseless play , " is also stormy : the retired statesman sleeps as soundly ...
... storm , To frown and roar , and shake his feeble form . ( " Hope , " 183-6 ) By implication , the world of business , which Cowper calls a dull routine and a " senseless play , " is also stormy : the retired statesman sleeps as soundly ...
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... storm , is some- times compared to a calm sea : the stars , to the man who sees God at work in nature , are " ... shining hosts , That navigate a sea that knows no storms , Beneath a vault unsullied with a cloud ... 99 ( " The Winter ...
... storm , is some- times compared to a calm sea : the stars , to the man who sees God at work in nature , are " ... shining hosts , That navigate a sea that knows no storms , Beneath a vault unsullied with a cloud ... 99 ( " The Winter ...
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