William Cowper and the Eighteenth Century |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 69
Page 27
... sense of the market - place , is proverbially akin to madness . Inspired sanity demands an exquisitely balanced ... senses , but the use of them . They were in themselves very good senses ; and even to - day , after a century and a half ...
... sense of the market - place , is proverbially akin to madness . Inspired sanity demands an exquisitely balanced ... senses , but the use of them . They were in themselves very good senses ; and even to - day , after a century and a half ...
Page 174
... sense of humour . He could certainly have shone , had he wished , among the beaux or the wits . But , as Dr. Johnson , who enjoyed his company , lamented , he had no time for slippered ease . He knew that the prime need of his age was ...
... sense of humour . He could certainly have shone , had he wished , among the beaux or the wits . But , as Dr. Johnson , who enjoyed his company , lamented , he had no time for slippered ease . He knew that the prime need of his age was ...
Page 288
... sense , " suggesting the eighteenth - century gentleman of culture , it is , in its essential aim , scope , and sense of values , both a reflection and a product of the Methodist Revival . Poor Lady Austen ! Having set " Brother William ...
... sense , " suggesting the eighteenth - century gentleman of culture , it is , in its essential aim , scope , and sense of values , both a reflection and a product of the Methodist Revival . Poor Lady Austen ! Having set " Brother William ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Arminian became Book brother called Calvinism Calvinistic cheerful Christian Church conversation cousin death despair divine effect eighteenth century England Evangelicalism fact faith father Fausset feeling garden Goldwin Smith happy Hayley heart human humour Huntingdon hymns hypochondria influence John Gilpin John Newton John Wesley Johnny Johnson Joseph Hill Lady Austen Lady Hesketh later Latitudinarians least less letter literary lived London Lord David Cecil Madan madness melancholy Memoir merely mind mood morbid never Newport Pagnell Newton Nonsense Club Olney Olney Hymns Orchard Side passage perhaps period poems poet poet's poetry preached realised reason recognised religion religious Revival says seems seen sense sincere sometimes soon speak spirit Task Theodora theology things thought town true truth Unwin verse Vicarage walk Wesley's Weston Weston Underwood whole wife William Bull William Cowper wish write written wrote