Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page xxv
... beauty , and a parted streak ? The twining jasmine , and the blushing rose , With lavish grace their morning scents disclose : The smelling tuberose and junquele declare , The stronger impulse of an evening air . This is not poetry ...
... beauty , and a parted streak ? The twining jasmine , and the blushing rose , With lavish grace their morning scents disclose : The smelling tuberose and junquele declare , The stronger impulse of an evening air . This is not poetry ...
Page xlvii
... beauty which the quatrain describes . The sonnet as a whole is about the rebellion of personal grief against the perception of order and beauty ; the attire of the fields , the redness of the sun , are emblematic of the natural order ...
... beauty which the quatrain describes . The sonnet as a whole is about the rebellion of personal grief against the perception of order and beauty ; the attire of the fields , the redness of the sun , are emblematic of the natural order ...
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... beauty start ; Beauty's a theme that ever warmed my heart . Think not , ye fair , that I the sex accuse : How shall I spare you , prompted by the Muse ? ( The Muses all are prudes ) she rails , she frets , Amidst this sprightly nation ...
... beauty start ; Beauty's a theme that ever warmed my heart . Think not , ye fair , that I the sex accuse : How shall I spare you , prompted by the Muse ? ( The Muses all are prudes ) she rails , she frets , Amidst this sprightly nation ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth