From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... romantic class is of a loose and elastic kind , full of these successive overflows , while the classical is closely confined to the use of distich , that is to say , of regular couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is ...
... romantic class is of a loose and elastic kind , full of these successive overflows , while the classical is closely confined to the use of distich , that is to say , of regular couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is ...
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... romantic order . While the wayward music of it is still in our ears , I will con- trast it with a few lines from Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found ...
... romantic order . While the wayward music of it is still in our ears , I will con- trast it with a few lines from Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found ...
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... romantic , when poetry re- vived under the Tudor monarchs ; the classical again from the English Commonwealth to the French Revolution ; the romantic again ever since . The subject of our present investigation is con- fined to the ...
... romantic , when poetry re- vived under the Tudor monarchs ; the classical again from the English Commonwealth to the French Revolution ; the romantic again ever since . The subject of our present investigation is con- fined to the ...
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... romantic poet who wished to allude to caterpillars could do so without any exercise of his ingenuity by simply introducing the word " caterpillars , " whereas the classical poet had to prove that he was a scholar and a gentle- man by ...
... romantic poet who wished to allude to caterpillars could do so without any exercise of his ingenuity by simply introducing the word " caterpillars , " whereas the classical poet had to prove that he was a scholar and a gentle- man by ...
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... romantic poetry that ever was written , has hated to be forced to call a spade a spade . Shakespeare is quite as far removed at times from straightforward reference to his subject as Armstrong or Darwin , but the difference lies in the ...
... romantic poetry that ever was written , has hated to be forced to call a spade a spade . Shakespeare is quite as far removed at times from straightforward reference to his subject as Armstrong or Darwin , but the difference lies in the ...
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Page 239 - The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home.
Page 69 - Go, LOVELY rose ! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died.
Page 215 - To move, but doth, if th' other do. And though it in the centre sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th...
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Page 173 - Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, More fit thy greatness, and my littleness) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) Not that thy spirit might on me doubled be, I ask but half thy mighty spirit for me ; And when my muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill learn of things divine, and first of thee to sing.
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