The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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Page 137
... verse before that age , the Corpus Poetarum would be insupportably enlarged . It is no small relief to turn from indifferent performance and undiscoverable promise to something , and that no small thing , not merely attempted but ...
... verse before that age , the Corpus Poetarum would be insupportably enlarged . It is no small relief to turn from indifferent performance and undiscoverable promise to something , and that no small thing , not merely attempted but ...
Page 202
... Verses . Instinctive delicacy of workmanship , sincere pathos and pure and artless emotion , give Lamb a unique place among those poets who , in occasional verse of an unpretentious order , offer , from time to time , a clear and ...
... Verses . Instinctive delicacy of workmanship , sincere pathos and pure and artless emotion , give Lamb a unique place among those poets who , in occasional verse of an unpretentious order , offer , from time to time , a clear and ...
Page 207
... Verse 207 untiring in his efforts to earn it , though he does not seem , like De Quincey , to have written for the sake of writing , whether ' hunger and request of friends ' pressed or not . But these inconveniences , though they exist ...
... Verse 207 untiring in his efforts to earn it , though he does not seem , like De Quincey , to have written for the sake of writing , whether ' hunger and request of friends ' pressed or not . But these inconveniences , though they exist ...
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