From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... things ye knew not of , -were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth , inlay , and clip , and fit , Till , like the certain wands of Jacob's wit , Their ...
... things ye knew not of , -were closely wed To musty laws lined out with wretched rule And compass vile ; so that ye taught a school Of dolts to smooth , inlay , and clip , and fit , Till , like the certain wands of Jacob's wit , Their ...
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... thing in our literature , we have no word for it in English . It has been proposed to pronounce the French word as though it were English , enjambments , but this is hideous . My friend , Mr Austin Dobson , has proposed to me the term ...
... thing in our literature , we have no word for it in English . It has been proposed to pronounce the French word as though it were English , enjambments , but this is hideous . My friend , Mr Austin Dobson , has proposed to me the term ...
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... 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 , without dispute , Through all ...
... 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 , without dispute , Through all ...
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... " sim- pering sons of those fair eyes , your fertile mothers , " and as many more unlikely things as the reader's curiosity can wish for . extravagances of Marini , had reduced imaginative literature to the 14 Poetry at the.
... " sim- pering sons of those fair eyes , your fertile mothers , " and as many more unlikely things as the reader's curiosity can wish for . extravagances of Marini , had reduced imaginative literature to the 14 Poetry at the.
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... thing that at the moment when England , under the cloud of her civil war , retired from the notice of Europe , she should be drawn into a species of literary alliance with the nations of the Continent . But so it was , and in the 18 ...
... thing that at the moment when England , under the cloud of her civil war , retired from the notice of Europe , she should be drawn into a species of literary alliance with the nations of the Continent . But so it was , and in the 18 ...
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