The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... give special atten- tion to its poetic form and manner , and this all the more because it was a quite novel kind of poetic venture . He had to devise a metrical scheme for it , and , having elected that the story should be told by a ...
... give special atten- tion to its poetic form and manner , and this all the more because it was a quite novel kind of poetic venture . He had to devise a metrical scheme for it , and , having elected that the story should be told by a ...
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... give occasion for the ad- mirable pictures of the past which are the poem's most conspicuous feature - is , as Lockhart admits , ' the main blot in the poem . ' It is a more serious blot than are the pranks of the goblin page in The Lay ...
... give occasion for the ad- mirable pictures of the past which are the poem's most conspicuous feature - is , as Lockhart admits , ' the main blot in the poem . ' It is a more serious blot than are the pranks of the goblin page in The Lay ...
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... give a national interest to his tale is especially seen in the case of The Heart of Midlothian . It is founded on the actual case of a young woman who made a journey to London on her sister's behalf , just as Jeanie Deans did , but ...
... give a national interest to his tale is especially seen in the case of The Heart of Midlothian . It is founded on the actual case of a young woman who made a journey to London on her sister's behalf , just as Jeanie Deans did , but ...
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... give The life we image , even as I do now . ( Childe Harold 111 , 6. ) When Childe Harold was begun at Janina in Albania , in 1809 , the hero may well have seemed to his creator as an imaginary figure ; but , between the composition of ...
... give The life we image , even as I do now . ( Childe Harold 111 , 6. ) When Childe Harold was begun at Janina in Albania , in 1809 , the hero may well have seemed to his creator as an imaginary figure ; but , between the composition of ...
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... gives to the Scottish lays something of epic massiveness ; but he has greater passion , and , within certain strictly defined limits , offers a more searching disclosure of the human heart . In these early oriental tales , we meet with ...
... gives to the Scottish lays something of epic massiveness ; but he has greater passion , and , within certain strictly defined limits , offers a more searching disclosure of the human heart . In these early oriental tales , we meet with ...
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