The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1856 |
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... speaking , or at any other . His melancholy , indeed , might strongly in- fluence his religious belief ; it might embitter the waters of life even as they were poured out fresh into his cup - it might make him think of God as of man ...
... speaking , or at any other . His melancholy , indeed , might strongly in- fluence his religious belief ; it might embitter the waters of life even as they were poured out fresh into his cup - it might make him think of God as of man ...
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... speaking . In the year above - mentioned he read considerably , and composed the Nightingale and the Glow - Worm , and towards its termination began to write with the serious intention of appear- ing before the public as an author ...
... speaking . In the year above - mentioned he read considerably , and composed the Nightingale and the Glow - Worm , and towards its termination began to write with the serious intention of appear- ing before the public as an author ...
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... speaking for himself , whoever presumes to step before him with a preface and to say , Nay , but hear me first , ' should have something worthy of attention to offer , or he will be justly deemed offi- cious and impertinent . The ...
... speaking for himself , whoever presumes to step before him with a preface and to say , Nay , but hear me first , ' should have something worthy of attention to offer , or he will be justly deemed offi- cious and impertinent . The ...
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... , the very use of the term experimental in religious concernments , is by too many unhappily rejected with disgust . But we well know , that they , who affect to despise the inward feelings which religious persons speak PREFACE . 23.
... , the very use of the term experimental in religious concernments , is by too many unhappily rejected with disgust . But we well know , that they , who affect to despise the inward feelings which religious persons speak PREFACE . 23.
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... speak of , and to treat them as enthusiasm and folly , have inward feelings of their own , which , though they would , they cannot suppress . We have been too long in the secret ourselves , to account the proud , the ambitious , or the ...
... speak of , and to treat them as enthusiasm and folly , have inward feelings of their own , which , though they would , they cannot suppress . We have been too long in the secret ourselves , to account the proud , the ambitious , or the ...
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