From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... writer he has contrived to condemn the practice he is attacking , no less by the form in which he clothes his ideas , than by the ideas themselves . The passage I have just quoted does not merely satirize the poetry which is presently ...
... writer he has contrived to condemn the practice he is attacking , no less by the form in which he clothes his ideas , than by the ideas themselves . The passage I have just quoted does not merely satirize the poetry which is presently ...
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... writers , Dryden and Keats , are here displayed , is almost identical . I have selected the second piece , because , like the first , it breathes indignation against the medio- crity of poetasters . Our ears none the less instruct us in ...
... writers , Dryden and Keats , are here displayed , is almost identical . I have selected the second piece , because , like the first , it breathes indignation against the medio- crity of poetasters . Our ears none the less instruct us in ...
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... writers spoke of a " gelid cistern " when they meant a cold bath , and " the loud hunter - crew " when they meant a pack of fox - hounds , and then at last the public began to crave a more direct form of utterance . To detect and to ...
... writers spoke of a " gelid cistern " when they meant a cold bath , and " the loud hunter - crew " when they meant a pack of fox - hounds , and then at last the public began to crave a more direct form of utterance . To detect and to ...
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... writing didactic occasional poems in distichs which were often as good as Dryden's ever became , at least as early as 1623. Now Malherbe , with whom by universal consent the fashion for correct versifying and the exclusion of ornament ...
... writing didactic occasional poems in distichs which were often as good as Dryden's ever became , at least as early as 1623. Now Malherbe , with whom by universal consent the fashion for correct versifying and the exclusion of ornament ...
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... writing of poems ; he would stroll up to young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy ... writers of the second and third decades of the century , made no public appearance until the fourth , while Herrick ...
... writing of poems ; he would stroll up to young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy ... writers of the second and third decades of the century , made no public appearance until the fourth , while Herrick ...
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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.
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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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Page 299 - An Analysis of the Exposition of the Creed, written by the Right Rev. Father in God, JOHN PEARSON, DD, late Lord Bishop of Chester. Compiled for the use of the Students of Bishop's College, Calcutta, by WH MILL, DD late Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.