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Page xxx
... things of the " Task are ever forgotten , it will not be because there are so many finer things in Wordsworth , but because there are so many less fine in Cowper . No one is more conscious of Cowper's faults than we who most admire and ...
... things of the " Task are ever forgotten , it will not be because there are so many finer things in Wordsworth , but because there are so many less fine in Cowper . No one is more conscious of Cowper's faults than we who most admire and ...
Page xli
... things of real interest . The lines which begin , " Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade " are a humble anticipation of the manner which Wordsworth afterwards used to such wonderful effect . " A violet by a mossy stone Half ...
... things of real interest . The lines which begin , " Sweet stream that winds through yonder glade " are a humble anticipation of the manner which Wordsworth afterwards used to such wonderful effect . " A violet by a mossy stone Half ...
Page xlvii
... things : the portraits of the postman and the waggoner , Dutch in their sincerity and wealth of detail , something more than Dutch in their imaginative sympathy ; the curious account of the newspaper of the day ; the invocations of ...
... things : the portraits of the postman and the waggoner , Dutch in their sincerity and wealth of detail , something more than Dutch in their imaginative sympathy ; the curious account of the newspaper of the day ; the invocations of ...
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