William Cowper Humanitarian: A Dissertation...University of North Carolina Press, 1938 - 277 pages |
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... thought it will be part of the purpose of this study to show . If we demand of the " iso- lated " poet of Olney " What's the world to you ? " we shall find from Cowper himself a very satisfactory answer : Much . I was born of woman ...
... thought it will be part of the purpose of this study to show . If we demand of the " iso- lated " poet of Olney " What's the world to you ? " we shall find from Cowper himself a very satisfactory answer : Much . I was born of woman ...
Page 114
... thought to do , and they have made me sick of the very name of liberty , which I never thought to be . Oh , how I detest them ! Coxcombs , as they are , on this occasion as they ever are on all . Apes of the Spartan and the Roman ...
... thought to do , and they have made me sick of the very name of liberty , which I never thought to be . Oh , how I detest them ! Coxcombs , as they are , on this occasion as they ever are on all . Apes of the Spartan and the Roman ...
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... thought cannot be estimated with exactness . There are fewer direct references to Wesley in Cowper than one would ordinarily suspect , even though Cowper and Wesley did belong to different schools of Evangelical thought . But since a ...
... thought cannot be estimated with exactness . There are fewer direct references to Wesley in Cowper than one would ordinarily suspect , even though Cowper and Wesley did belong to different schools of Evangelical thought . But since a ...
Contents
COWPER AND THE PROBLEMS | 20 |
LEGAL REFORMS | 113 |
COWPERS PACIFISM | 142 |
Copyright | |
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