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... line , And greets Charles River broad and opaline , Till wanes September's honeysuckle moon Too soon ; And then - away he goes , A flash of ruby on the southward air , And comes no more , though still the straits are fair , Where misty ...
... line , And greets Charles River broad and opaline , Till wanes September's honeysuckle moon Too soon ; And then - away he goes , A flash of ruby on the southward air , And comes no more , though still the straits are fair , Where misty ...
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... lines Keats has so admirably summed up the convictions of the first half of the present cen- tury with regard to the classical poetry , that I need make little comment upon them , further than to point out that with the tact of a great ...
... lines Keats has so admirably summed up the convictions of the first half of the present cen- tury with regard to the classical poetry , that I need make little comment upon them , further than to point out that with the tact of a great ...
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... line or of one couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and I propose to adopt it throughout this inquiry , as equivalent to the vers enjambé of the French . In its simplest definition , then , the ...
... line or of one couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and I propose to adopt it throughout this inquiry , as equivalent to the vers enjambé of the French . In its simplest definition , then , the ...
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... lines from Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found , who , like Augustus , young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned ...
... lines from Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found , who , like Augustus , young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned ...
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... lines , addressed to Mme de Rambouillet , which were inserted in the letter from Malherbe , published in Le Recueil de Lettres nouvelles by Faret in 1627 . We return , then , to England , and to Death of Shakespeare . 21.
... lines , addressed to Mme de Rambouillet , which were inserted in the letter from Malherbe , published in Le Recueil de Lettres nouvelles by Faret in 1627 . We return , then , to England , and to Death of Shakespeare . 21.
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