From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... Greek simplicity , attained a position somewhat analogous to that of Cowley . But he stood alone until Filicaja came , and Italy presents us with the spectacle of a literature too effete and nerveless to undergo the process of even a ...
... Greek simplicity , attained a position somewhat analogous to that of Cowley . But he stood alone until Filicaja came , and Italy presents us with the spectacle of a literature too effete and nerveless to undergo the process of even a ...
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... Greeks told on the tragedies of Eschylus , or as the deeds of Icelanders who went a - viking told on their drapas and their sagas . But to this brief period of intoxication , a time of depression and collapse was bound to follow ...
... Greeks told on the tragedies of Eschylus , or as the deeds of Icelanders who went a - viking told on their drapas and their sagas . But to this brief period of intoxication , a time of depression and collapse was bound to follow ...
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... woe the discontent Of Thetis ' son brought to the Greeks , what souls Of heroes down to Erebus it sent , Leaving their bodies unto dogs and fowls . " It is believed that the printing of Hammond's verses incited Davenant and Cowley . 165.
... woe the discontent Of Thetis ' son brought to the Greeks , what souls Of heroes down to Erebus it sent , Leaving their bodies unto dogs and fowls . " It is believed that the printing of Hammond's verses incited Davenant and Cowley . 165.
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... Greek and Latin ; Instead of Aristotle , Would I had got a patten . Álas ! poor scholar whither wilt thou go ? 1 Imitated twenty years afterwards by Cleland in his ingenious lyric Hallo my fancy . Cambridge , now I must leave thee , And ...
... Greek and Latin ; Instead of Aristotle , Would I had got a patten . Álas ! poor scholar whither wilt thou go ? 1 Imitated twenty years afterwards by Cleland in his ingenious lyric Hallo my fancy . Cambridge , now I must leave thee , And ...
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... Greek Philosophy ; but as a poet he showed something of this weakness . The translations appeared in 1649 ; in 1651 he published his original poems , and they were dis- appointing . We see in them the intellectual faults which led him ...
... Greek Philosophy ; but as a poet he showed something of this weakness . The translations appeared in 1649 ; in 1651 he published his original poems , and they were dis- appointing . We see in them the intellectual faults which led him ...
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