Cowper: Poetry and ProseHart-Davis, 1968 - 1018 pages |
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Page 51
... texts of the poems selected here are those of the editions where they first appeared . But where I have satisfied myself that the later text was the better one , and could conceivably have been printed from a manuscript revised by ...
... texts of the poems selected here are those of the editions where they first appeared . But where I have satisfied myself that the later text was the better one , and could conceivably have been printed from a manuscript revised by ...
Page 52
... text of a manuscript in his hand has been preferred to the version of the early editions . The text from which each poem is printed is given in a footnote . Reprinted editions of the Poems are referred to by the date of year in which ...
... text of a manuscript in his hand has been preferred to the version of the early editions . The text from which each poem is printed is given in a footnote . Reprinted editions of the Poems are referred to by the date of year in which ...
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... text by way of antidote to the noxious tendency of your discourses . The text , with a little transposition and variation of the words , would perhaps have come nearer to the truth , and have suited the occasion better . Instead of ...
... text by way of antidote to the noxious tendency of your discourses . The text , with a little transposition and variation of the words , would perhaps have come nearer to the truth , and have suited the occasion better . Instead of ...
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