From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... kind too particular for the purposes of a lecture , but not , I hope , without genuine importance to the student of the history of literature . an enquiry of this nature , exact evidence , even of a minute kind , outweighs in import ...
... kind too particular for the purposes of a lecture , but not , I hope , without genuine importance to the student of the history of literature . an enquiry of this nature , exact evidence , even of a minute kind , outweighs in import ...
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... kind , full of these successive overflows , while the classical is closely confined to the use of distich , that is to say , of regular couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is rigidly confined . 1 Milton describes the ...
... kind , full of these successive overflows , while the classical is closely confined to the use of distich , that is to say , of regular couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is rigidly confined . 1 Milton describes the ...
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... kind , had curbed the erratic inclinations of the poets , they suddenly and wilfully shut them- selves up between walls of rule , and abandoned the wild woods for stately and mechanical circuits around the box - walks of a labyrinth ...
... kind , had curbed the erratic inclinations of the poets , they suddenly and wilfully shut them- selves up between walls of rule , and abandoned the wild woods for stately and mechanical circuits around the box - walks of a labyrinth ...
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... kind , to pretend that the works of all the Marinist or so- called metaphysical poets of the reign of Charles I. are not excessively unequal in merit , and constantly ready to sink into unpardonable bathos or swell into equally ...
... kind , to pretend that the works of all the Marinist or so- called metaphysical poets of the reign of Charles I. are not excessively unequal in merit , and constantly ready to sink into unpardonable bathos or swell into equally ...
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... kind of watchword of the higher culture , like Botticelli . Now Cyril Tourneur has been reprinted , with admirable care , by a very distinguished scholar , and I notice that his name becomes rarer and rarer on the lips and pens of the ...
... kind of watchword of the higher culture , like Botticelli . Now Cyril Tourneur has been reprinted , with admirable care , by a very distinguished scholar , and I notice that his name becomes rarer and rarer on the lips and pens of the ...
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