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Page 32
... scene round them , with its grandeur , its sadness , its promises . In such a state of things there is every- thing to tempt poetry . There are its materials and its stimulus , and there is the leisure to use its materials . But the ...
... scene round them , with its grandeur , its sadness , its promises . In such a state of things there is every- thing to tempt poetry . There are its materials and its stimulus , and there is the leisure to use its materials . But the ...
Page 40
... scene . Poetical inven- tion was held to consist in imagining an environment , a set of outward circumstances , as unlike as possible to the fa- miliar realities of actual life and employment , in which the primary affections and ...
... scene . Poetical inven- tion was held to consist in imagining an environment , a set of outward circumstances , as unlike as possible to the fa- miliar realities of actual life and employment , in which the primary affections and ...
Page 44
... scene , by making it both archaic and pro- vincial . He found in Chaucer a store of forms and words sufficiently well known to be with a little help intelligible , and sufficiently out of common use to give the character of antiquity to ...
... scene , by making it both archaic and pro- vincial . He found in Chaucer a store of forms and words sufficiently well known to be with a little help intelligible , and sufficiently out of common use to give the character of antiquity to ...
Page 53
Richard William Church. daring minds which were fast thronging the political and literary scene - any of these contingencies might have given his poetical faculty a different direction ; nay , might have even abridged its exercise or ...
Richard William Church. daring minds which were fast thronging the political and literary scene - any of these contingencies might have given his poetical faculty a different direction ; nay , might have even abridged its exercise or ...
Page 57
... scenes and necessities of Irish life . Within three weeks after Lord Grey's landing , he and those with him were present at the disaster of Glenmalure , a rocky defile near Wicklow , where the rebels enticed the English captains into a ...
... scenes and necessities of Irish life . Within three weeks after Lord Grey's landing , he and those with him were present at the disaster of Glenmalure , a rocky defile near Wicklow , where the rebels enticed the English captains into a ...
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