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... Nature , and since man , according to Cowper's religion , was " naturally " evil , how could Nature itself be good ? We look in vain , however , for strict logic in Cowper , as indeed in many greater thinkers ; nor in the eighteenth ...
... Nature , and since man , according to Cowper's religion , was " naturally " evil , how could Nature itself be good ? We look in vain , however , for strict logic in Cowper , as indeed in many greater thinkers ; nor in the eighteenth ...
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... Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God . . . • One spirit - His Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows- Rules universal nature . Not a flow'r But shows some touch , in freckle , streak , or stain , Of his ...
... Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God . . . • One spirit - His Who wore the plaited thorns with bleeding brows- Rules universal nature . Not a flow'r But shows some touch , in freckle , streak , or stain , Of his ...
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... nature ; when all the while nature was an object either not looked at , or not sufficiently . " 1 Letters to Lady Hesketh , December 1785 , and January 1786 . Cowper lamented that this " most blameless writer was not 348 William Cowper.
... nature ; when all the while nature was an object either not looked at , or not sufficiently . " 1 Letters to Lady Hesketh , December 1785 , and January 1786 . Cowper lamented that this " most blameless writer was not 348 William Cowper.
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FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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