In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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... things , Cowper's homeland : Poor England ! thou art a devoted deer , Beset with ev'ry ill but that of fear . The nations hunt ; all mark thee for a prey ; They swarm around thee , and thou stand'st at bay . Undaunted still , though ...
... things , Cowper's homeland : Poor England ! thou art a devoted deer , Beset with ev'ry ill but that of fear . The nations hunt ; all mark thee for a prey ; They swarm around thee , and thou stand'st at bay . Undaunted still , though ...
Page 94
... things with , and these little things are so fugitive , that while a man catches at the subject , he is only filling his hand with smoke . I must do with it as I do with my linnet ; I keep him for the most part in a cage , but now and ...
... things with , and these little things are so fugitive , that while a man catches at the subject , he is only filling his hand with smoke . I must do with it as I do with my linnet ; I keep him for the most part in a cage , but now and ...
Page 151
... things . From the violent rejection of earlier parts of the poem , notably of “ The Time - Piece , " Cowper has come , through observation of the divine plan as revealed in nature and revelation , to a kind of equilibrium . He goes his ...
... things . From the violent rejection of earlier parts of the poem , notably of “ The Time - Piece , " Cowper has come , through observation of the divine plan as revealed in nature and revelation , to a kind of equilibrium . He goes his ...
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