Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... England . The poet's parents must have been Protestants , and on the mind of a London child in a Protestant home the impressions of early years must have been indelible . When he was five or six years old Elizabeth succeeded Mary ; and ...
... England . The poet's parents must have been Protestants , and on the mind of a London child in a Protestant home the impressions of early years must have been indelible . When he was five or six years old Elizabeth succeeded Mary ; and ...
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... England . He eventually received a grant of 3000 acres and Kilcolman Castle . There is in his fragmentary book on Mutabilitie abundant evidence of his sense of the beauty of the land , and he says as much in prose . " And sure it is yet ...
... England . He eventually received a grant of 3000 acres and Kilcolman Castle . There is in his fragmentary book on Mutabilitie abundant evidence of his sense of the beauty of the land , and he says as much in prose . " And sure it is yet ...
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... England . The ships of England were not merely engaged in 1 Cf. Milton , P. L. , ix . 1115 . Such of late Columbus found the American , so girt With feather'd cincture , naked else and wild Among the trees on isles and woody shores . 2 ...
... England . The ships of England were not merely engaged in 1 Cf. Milton , P. L. , ix . 1115 . Such of late Columbus found the American , so girt With feather'd cincture , naked else and wild Among the trees on isles and woody shores . 2 ...
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... England " is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King , That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace , Like flying doves ye did before you chace . The whole poem is one of victory , of hope and triumph ...
... England " is full of the great victory of 1588— Sith those huge castles of Castilian King , That vainly threatned kingdomes to displace , Like flying doves ye did before you chace . The whole poem is one of victory , of hope and triumph ...
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... England had had one great poet , but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible . Pronunciation in particular had shifted , and men , while they read him scan . with enthusiasm , could never be sure of ...
... England had had one great poet , but two centuries had changed her speech and Chaucer was not wholly intelligible . Pronunciation in particular had shifted , and men , while they read him scan . with enthusiasm , could never be sure of ...
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