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... Thoughts . I have presum'd farther in some Places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient , and had not given his Thoughts their true Lustre , for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language . ( 510-24 ) ...
... Thoughts . I have presum'd farther in some Places , and added somewhat of my own where I thought my Author was deficient , and had not given his Thoughts their true Lustre , for want of Words in the Beginning of our Language . ( 510-24 ) ...
Page 80
... thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the scene means so much to her that it is ...
... thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the scene means so much to her that it is ...
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... Thought cannot spend itself because thought cannot more than occa- sionally find a way out : not admiration only , but frustration also is ex- pressed here . Cowper is fascinated by the duality , but he is so concerned with making the ...
... Thought cannot spend itself because thought cannot more than occa- sionally find a way out : not admiration only , but frustration also is ex- pressed here . Cowper is fascinated by the duality , but he is so concerned with making the ...
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