From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... poetical composition for eighteen laborious years . So that Milton's noble figure will accompany us all down the course of our inquiry , but at a distance , neither approving nor dis- approving , —the restless and irritable temper of ...
... poetical composition for eighteen laborious years . So that Milton's noble figure will accompany us all down the course of our inquiry , but at a distance , neither approving nor dis- approving , —the restless and irritable temper of ...
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... poetical style . " Rime , " he said , " has all the advantages of prose , besides its own . But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us how ...
... poetical style . " Rime , " he said , " has all the advantages of prose , besides its own . But the excellence and dignity of it were never fully known till Mr Waller taught it : he first made writing easily an art ; first showed us how ...
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... poetical peers could hardly be adduced , and Suckling was , after all , a golden swashbuckler of the gardens of Whitehall more than a person of letters . The truth seems to be that Waller held himself resolutely aloof from the ...
... poetical peers could hardly be adduced , and Suckling was , after all , a golden swashbuckler of the gardens of Whitehall more than a person of letters . The truth seems to be that Waller held himself resolutely aloof from the ...
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... poetical offspring of the author of Volpone . The debtor was brought in to the club , and proved to be a relation of Waller's own , George Morley , a penniless student of Christ- church , Oxford , as learned , witty , and needy as a man ...
... poetical offspring of the author of Volpone . The debtor was brought in to the club , and proved to be a relation of Waller's own , George Morley , a penniless student of Christ- church , Oxford , as learned , witty , and needy as a man ...
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... poetical addresses , and about half as many indirect tes- timonies to her beauty and her scorn . The long heroic poem , called The Battle of the Summer Islands , it is true , is dragged behind the car of the cruelty of Sacharissa by ...
... poetical addresses , and about half as many indirect tes- timonies to her beauty and her scorn . The long heroic poem , called The Battle of the Summer Islands , it is true , is dragged behind the car of the cruelty of Sacharissa by ...
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