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... hope subsists but to prolong my pain . When , selling his chambers there , he resigned from the Middle Temple in 1757 and transferred his membership to the Inner Temple , Cowper was probably not entirely in- fluenced by the greater ...
... hope subsists but to prolong my pain . When , selling his chambers there , he resigned from the Middle Temple in 1757 and transferred his membership to the Inner Temple , Cowper was probably not entirely in- fluenced by the greater ...
Page 63
... hope said I - the villain I would kill Has slipt between the door and the door's sill ; And if I make despatch , and follow hard , No doubt but I shall find him in the yard : — For long ere now it should have been rehears'd , ' Twas in ...
... hope said I - the villain I would kill Has slipt between the door and the door's sill ; And if I make despatch , and follow hard , No doubt but I shall find him in the yard : — For long ere now it should have been rehears'd , ' Twas in ...
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... hope on thee ; Thy constant love , thy faithful care , Is all that saves me from despair . Dangers of ev'ry shape and name Attend the followers of the Lamb , Who leave the world's deceitful shore , And leave it to return no more . Tho ...
... hope on thee ; Thy constant love , thy faithful care , Is all that saves me from despair . Dangers of ev'ry shape and name Attend the followers of the Lamb , Who leave the world's deceitful shore , And leave it to return no more . Tho ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
COWPERS LIFE | 38 |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin | 65 |
Copyright | |
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