The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Page 62
... close of 1816 had affected him little . He had long ceased to love her , and the pathos of her miserable end failed to touch the springs of his flowing compassion . The cruelty of his situation makes the fierce stanzas To the Lord ...
... close of 1816 had affected him little . He had long ceased to love her , and the pathos of her miserable end failed to touch the springs of his flowing compassion . The cruelty of his situation makes the fierce stanzas To the Lord ...
Page 117
... close of this chapter . Personally and individually , he is an instance of the kind of poet whom it would be more or less pre- posterous to call a great poet , and who yet has produced things which only the greatest poets can match ...
... close of this chapter . Personally and individually , he is an instance of the kind of poet whom it would be more or less pre- posterous to call a great poet , and who yet has produced things which only the greatest poets can match ...
Page 224
... close of his long life , he held a curious and rather anomalous position as a sort of amateur or freelance hovering on the outskirts of literature and ' picqueering , ' as they would have said in Dryden's time , on the subject in ...
... close of his long life , he held a curious and rather anomalous position as a sort of amateur or freelance hovering on the outskirts of literature and ' picqueering , ' as they would have said in Dryden's time , on the subject in ...
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