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... letter to Newton . Perhaps even here we must allow somewhat for whimsicality ; but , divorced from its context , as it sometimes has been , this passage , with its reflection of Cowper's belief both in his spiritual doom and in his own ...
... letter to Newton . Perhaps even here we must allow somewhat for whimsicality ; but , divorced from its context , as it sometimes has been , this passage , with its reflection of Cowper's belief both in his spiritual doom and in his own ...
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... letter in more ways than one ! Cowper's humility , no less than his avid need of affection , shines through it . On June 9 of that year , the Lord Dartmouth had arrived Newton dined with him and the But we must return to 1777 . bells of ...
... letter in more ways than one ! Cowper's humility , no less than his avid need of affection , shines through it . On June 9 of that year , the Lord Dartmouth had arrived Newton dined with him and the But we must return to 1777 . bells of ...
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... letter ; when I write to you , you answer me in fish . ” IV Cowper's gloomy letter to Newton , quoted in the previous section , is dated January 13 , 1784. I have , therefore , slightly 1 See , for instance , the letter of June 1780 ...
... letter ; when I write to you , you answer me in fish . ” IV Cowper's gloomy letter to Newton , quoted in the previous section , is dated January 13 , 1784. I have , therefore , slightly 1 See , for instance , the letter of June 1780 ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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