92) §4. Satires. IV. William Cowper. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
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...in variety. 12 But these ideas were involved in a temperament. The chief differences among men are not in their ideas, as ideas, but in the power of the ideas over...