Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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... favour , and his insistence on certain definite dogmas tends to repel instead of attract most of his modern readers . It is true , too , that his two volumes appeared ( in 1782 and 1785 ) at a barren time , and in consequence gained an ...
... favour , and his insistence on certain definite dogmas tends to repel instead of attract most of his modern readers . It is true , too , that his two volumes appeared ( in 1782 and 1785 ) at a barren time , and in consequence gained an ...
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... favoured with a key , which admits us into all . When this man succeeded to the estate , on the death of his elder ... favour of his mother , who on that occasion went to finish her days at Bath . You may conclude that he granted it ...
... favoured with a key , which admits us into all . When this man succeeded to the estate , on the death of his elder ... favour of his mother , who on that occasion went to finish her days at Bath . You may conclude that he granted it ...
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... favour , Sir , if you would furnish me with one . ' To this , I replied . Mr. Cox , you have several men of genius in your town , why have you not applied to some of them ? There is a namesake of yours in par- ticular , Cox , the ...
... favour , Sir , if you would furnish me with one . ' To this , I replied . Mr. Cox , you have several men of genius in your town , why have you not applied to some of them ? There is a namesake of yours in par- ticular , Cox , the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
Copyright | |
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