From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... brought them rot on shore ; Yet still that murmur lingers at their core , And fancy's light across their tropic bed Is shed . I , less than bird or shell , More volatile , more fragile far than these , Lighting an hour by these New ...
... brought them rot on shore ; Yet still that murmur lingers at their core , And fancy's light across their tropic bed Is shed . I , less than bird or shell , More volatile , more fragile far than these , Lighting an hour by these New ...
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... brought the speaker closer to the grace of Latinity . It was thought that the old direct manner of speaking was crude and futile ; that a romantic poet who wished to allude to caterpillars could do so without any exercise of his ...
... brought the speaker closer to the grace of Latinity . It was thought that the old direct manner of speaking was crude and futile ; that a romantic poet who wished to allude to caterpillars could do so without any exercise of his ...
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... brought face to face with a fiery indigna- tion . The reaction against the bondage of the eighteenth century still gives us a tender partiality towards what is exaggerated , violent , and bom- bastic . Still , even in this matter , I ...
... brought face to face with a fiery indigna- tion . The reaction against the bondage of the eighteenth century still gives us a tender partiality towards what is exaggerated , violent , and bom- bastic . Still , even in this matter , I ...
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... Brought Mars and Venus to the conquered side . " The prosody of such lines as these is quite undistinguishable from that of the classic school from 1660 to the close of the seventeenth century . Dryden proceeded no further than this in ...
... Brought Mars and Venus to the conquered side . " The prosody of such lines as these is quite undistinguishable from that of the classic school from 1660 to the close of the seventeenth century . Dryden proceeded no further than this in ...
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... brought the news , he was still at morning prayer . The story current at the time , which Clarendon repeats and Waller versifies , is that the King , when the news was whispered to him , re- mained kneeling without change of countenance ...
... brought the news , he was still at morning prayer . The story current at the time , which Clarendon repeats and Waller versifies , is that the King , when the news was whispered to him , re- mained kneeling without change of countenance ...
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