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... truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered , except by professed inquirers into the antiquities of our literature ; they were usually clumsy and awkward , sometimes grotesque , often ...
... truth , or to sing with measure and grace . There is no reason why they should be remembered , except by professed inquirers into the antiquities of our literature ; they were usually clumsy and awkward , sometimes grotesque , often ...
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Richard William Church. Sonnets , ' and this probably is near the truth . That is to say , that Spenser was born in one of the last two years of Edward VI .; that his infancy was passed during the dark days of Mary ; and that he was ...
Richard William Church. Sonnets , ' and this probably is near the truth . That is to say , that Spenser was born in one of the last two years of Edward VI .; that his infancy was passed during the dark days of Mary ; and that he was ...
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... truth , and made him understand better than his theories what a poet could and ought to do with English speech in its free play and genuine melodies . When we first come upon him , we find that at the age of twenty - seven , he had not ...
... truth , and made him understand better than his theories what a poet could and ought to do with English speech in its free play and genuine melodies . When we first come upon him , we find that at the age of twenty - seven , he had not ...
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... truth , was full of poetry . The nation was just in that condition which is most favourable to an outburst of poet- ical life or art . It was highly excited ; but it was also in a state of comparative peace and freedom from external ...
... truth , was full of poetry . The nation was just in that condition which is most favourable to an outburst of poet- ical life or art . It was highly excited ; but it was also in a state of comparative peace and freedom from external ...
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... truth , and powerful thoughts of the world and man , are rare ; and poetical reformers ap- pear maundering about miserable attempts at English hex- ameters and sapphics . What was to be looked for from all that ? Who could suppose what ...
... truth , and powerful thoughts of the world and man , are rare ; and poetical reformers ap- pear maundering about miserable attempts at English hex- ameters and sapphics . What was to be looked for from all that ? Who could suppose what ...
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