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... least resistance to the positive spoiling that is hardly less dangerous than repression . There is no hint that Dr. Cowper spoiled his son , who was in fact seldom at home . It is possible to assume a certain sympathy and some affinity ...
... least resistance to the positive spoiling that is hardly less dangerous than repression . There is no hint that Dr. Cowper spoiled his son , who was in fact seldom at home . It is possible to assume a certain sympathy and some affinity ...
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... least , if it did , it was a long time at the task , as she survived these events more than sixty years . " Bagehot was too conventionally masculine— too much the " hardy and healthy " exponent of mere common sense to sympathise with ...
... least , if it did , it was a long time at the task , as she survived these events more than sixty years . " Bagehot was too conventionally masculine— too much the " hardy and healthy " exponent of mere common sense to sympathise with ...
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... least , the most difficult species of poetry . " If in the sequence of his ideas Cowper was the most spontaneous of writers , he was a fastidious - though not always an impeccable - stylist . In October 1784 , he sent the completed ...
... least , the most difficult species of poetry . " If in the sequence of his ideas Cowper was the most spontaneous of writers , he was a fastidious - though not always an impeccable - stylist . In October 1784 , he sent the completed ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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