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... continually appears in elaborate dress . The first stanza runs , Still to be neat , still to be dressed , As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered , still perfumed : Lady , it is to be presumed , Though art's hid causes are ...
... continually appears in elaborate dress . The first stanza runs , Still to be neat , still to be dressed , As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered , still perfumed : Lady , it is to be presumed , Though art's hid causes are ...
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... continually directional , and intensity deepens : Or if the air will not permit , Some still removed place will fit .... me goddess bring To arched walks of twilight groves ... ... let my due feet never fail To walk the studious 32 ...
... continually directional , and intensity deepens : Or if the air will not permit , Some still removed place will fit .... me goddess bring To arched walks of twilight groves ... ... let my due feet never fail To walk the studious 32 ...
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... continually about to be . When the verb comes in the last line , it comes as a possibility – ' I might with rev'rence kneel ' . This ' imminence ' applies not only to the sensibility of Cowper , pausing before the plunge . - as he is to ...
... continually about to be . When the verb comes in the last line , it comes as a possibility – ' I might with rev'rence kneel ' . This ' imminence ' applies not only to the sensibility of Cowper , pausing before the plunge . - as he is to ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel admit argues argument attack attitude Augustan Balaam becomes Chanticleer character Chaucer's Christian civilisation Comus concerned context contrast Cowper Crabbe Crabbe's Crusoe's death Defoe Defoe's novels Deserted Village Donne Donne's Dryden eighteenth-century Elegy Epistle Essays example fact fancy feel Fielding Fielding's further give Goldsmith Gray Gray's happy Heaven Ian Watt Il Penseroso Johnson Jones L'Allegro Lady lines literature live Lycidas marriage Milton mind miseries Moll Moll Flanders moral nature nature's notion Nun's Priest's Nun's Priest's Tale o'er object pains Pamela passion peasant Penseroso Penshurst perhaps picture pleasure poem poet poetic poetry political Pope Pope's portrayal portrayed pride Rasselas reality Robinson Crusoe rustic Satan satire says scene seen sense Shamela shows simply social soul speaker spiritual stanza Swift tale thee theme things Thomson thou thought Tom Jones tree Triffids truth universe virtue vision write