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... later , the author of The Task is still a living figure , though the bulk of his poetry be little read . As the link between Pope and the Romantic Revival , between conventionality and nature , Cowper will always hold his place in ...
... later , the author of The Task is still a living figure , though the bulk of his poetry be little read . As the link between Pope and the Romantic Revival , between conventionality and nature , Cowper will always hold his place in ...
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... later age . The inevitable counterpart of the eighteenth century laissez- faire - it is wrong to call it a sequel , since the very revolt was an integral element in the period - was the Wesleyan Revival . Yet the political stagnation of ...
... later age . The inevitable counterpart of the eighteenth century laissez- faire - it is wrong to call it a sequel , since the very revolt was an integral element in the period - was the Wesleyan Revival . Yet the political stagnation of ...
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... later page as one of the most devoted and single - hearted of Christian ministers . " 66 In 1776 , while still living at Olney , Newton came to London for a surgical operation , then an extremely painful and dangerous affair . He ...
... later page as one of the most devoted and single - hearted of Christian ministers . " 66 In 1776 , while still living at Olney , Newton came to London for a surgical operation , then an extremely painful and dangerous affair . He ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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