The Poems of William CowperMethuen, 1906 - 741 pages |
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... least importance , and , with that object , all editions of any authority have been examined , and all the MSS . to which I have had access carefully collated . In particular , the several manu- script collections of which mention will ...
... least importance , and , with that object , all editions of any authority have been examined , and all the MSS . to which I have had access carefully collated . In particular , the several manu- script collections of which mention will ...
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... least of them and merely by way of contrast , in connection with his . Yet it is hard to feel sure that , if he could have known himself and his gifts for what they were , he could not have done more with them . As things are , he is a ...
... least of them and merely by way of contrast , in connection with his . Yet it is hard to feel sure that , if he could have known himself and his gifts for what they were , he could not have done more with them . As things are , he is a ...
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... least , cannot doubt that his departure was a great gain to Cowper , the man and the invalid , and that it , and it alone , made possible the appearance of Cowper the poet . The Reverend Josiah Bull , in his autobiography of Newton ...
... least , cannot doubt that his departure was a great gain to Cowper , the man and the invalid , and that it , and it alone , made possible the appearance of Cowper the poet . The Reverend Josiah Bull , in his autobiography of Newton ...
Page xxx
... least partially true . The story of two women and one man is a very old one , and it is not the less likely to have its usual ending where one of the two , and that one in the unique position we now know to have been that of Mrs. Unwin ...
... least partially true . The story of two women and one man is a very old one , and it is not the less likely to have its usual ending where one of the two , and that one in the unique position we now know to have been that of Mrs. Unwin ...
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... least likely to reach , that it must have very much helped the sale of the volume in which it now appeared . The London world which had given Henderson and Sheridan a profit of eight hundred pounds on their recitations , and had been so ...
... least likely to reach , that it must have very much helped the sale of the volume in which it now appeared . The London world which had given Henderson and Sheridan a profit of eight hundred pounds on their recitations , and had been so ...
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