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Page 432
... century before that century arrived , we have had better since it departed . Like the Greeks , and unlike the French , we can point to an age of poetry anterior to our age of prose , eclipsing our age of prose in glory , and fixing the ...
... century before that century arrived , we have had better since it departed . Like the Greeks , and unlike the French , we can point to an age of poetry anterior to our age of prose , eclipsing our age of prose in glory , and fixing the ...
Page 435
... century it had become the ruling form of our poetry . Poetry , or rather the use of verse , entered in a remarkable degree , during that century , into the whole of the daily life of the civilised classes ; and the poetry of the century ...
... century it had become the ruling form of our poetry . Poetry , or rather the use of verse , entered in a remarkable degree , during that century , into the whole of the daily life of the civilised classes ; and the poetry of the century ...
Page 437
... century so well represented by Dryden , Addison , Pope , and Swift , and of which the literary history is so powerfully written by Johnson in his Lives , is a century of prose - a century of which the great work in literature was the ...
... century so well represented by Dryden , Addison , Pope , and Swift , and of which the literary history is so powerfully written by Johnson in his Lives , is a century of prose - a century of which the great work in literature was the ...
Contents
THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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