William CowperJ. Cape, 1928 - 319 pages |
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Page 155
... never aiming at anything above the pitch of every day's scribble , ' it was a scrupulous pitch . ' I did not perceive till this moment , ' he wrote for example in one letter , ' that I had tacked two similes together ; a practice which ...
... never aiming at anything above the pitch of every day's scribble , ' it was a scrupulous pitch . ' I did not perceive till this moment , ' he wrote for example in one letter , ' that I had tacked two similes together ; a practice which ...
Page 211
... never have been accom- plished , in a route that could never be followed , ' had attained its final form . Cowper inherited a taste for the light ballad from his father , and he even asserted that if graver matters had not called him ...
... never have been accom- plished , in a route that could never be followed , ' had attained its final form . Cowper inherited a taste for the light ballad from his father , and he even asserted that if graver matters had not called him ...
Page 307
... never- theless blindly upheld . Never did an outgrown faith , a religion which was ' the last refuge of human savagery , ' work worse havoc in a being too sensitive and rational to need or profit by its taboos . And if his hand did not ...
... never- theless blindly upheld . Never did an outgrown faith , a religion which was ' the last refuge of human savagery , ' work worse havoc in a being too sensitive and rational to need or profit by its taboos . And if his hand did not ...
Contents
THE SEEDS OF MISFORTUNE Page | 15 |
THE HARVEST OF PROVIDENCE | 65 |
THE REV JOHN NEWTON | 99 |
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