Eighteenth-century PoetryPatricia Ann Meyer Spacks, Patricia Meyer Spacks Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 451 pages |
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Page xliv
... hope to communicate only in terms of common experience . The modern poet who deals with his own private ecstasies , if he is to have any hope of more than a tiny coterie audience , must use images and references relating his unique ...
... hope to communicate only in terms of common experience . The modern poet who deals with his own private ecstasies , if he is to have any hope of more than a tiny coterie audience , must use images and references relating his unique ...
Page 216
... Hope , with eyes so fair , What was thy delightful measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure , And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong , And from the rocks , the woods , the vale , She ...
... Hope , with eyes so fair , What was thy delightful measure ? Still it whispered promised pleasure , And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail ! Still would her touch the strain prolong , And from the rocks , the woods , the vale , She ...
Page 300
... hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life still vig'rous revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier place , Where ...
... hope but soothes to double my distress , And ev'ry moment leaves my little less ; While yet my steady steps no staff sustains , And life still vig'rous revels in my veins ; Grant me , kind heaven , to find some happier place , Where ...
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