The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... never intense . He never reaches passion , but only sentiment ; and that sentiment is too often mawkish if not even rancid . He is almost purely imitative — at least in poems of any pretension . He is a clever craftsman , but never a ...
... never intense . He never reaches passion , but only sentiment ; and that sentiment is too often mawkish if not even rancid . He is almost purely imitative — at least in poems of any pretension . He is a clever craftsman , but never a ...
Page 224
... never accomplished poetry but , as was noticed in the earlier part of this chapter , indulged in something perilously like blasphemy of it . For , to say that you might have been such a poet as your neighbours when those neighbours are ...
... never accomplished poetry but , as was noticed in the earlier part of this chapter , indulged in something perilously like blasphemy of it . For , to say that you might have been such a poet as your neighbours when those neighbours are ...
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... never set himself very seriously to defend . His intellectual standpoint , however much during his long life it may seem to have varied , never really departed from the three bases on which it had been founded . He was an Aristotelian ...
... never set himself very seriously to defend . His intellectual standpoint , however much during his long life it may seem to have varied , never really departed from the three bases on which it had been founded . He was an Aristotelian ...
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