Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... character of the poet . The doubt came to my mind as to whether it were worth while to go on reading such a poem -- a doubt that must often occur to those who read criticism . Hap- pily this time I laid the critic down and took the poet ...
... character of the poet . The doubt came to my mind as to whether it were worth while to go on reading such a poem -- a doubt that must often occur to those who read criticism . Hap- pily this time I laid the critic down and took the poet ...
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... character . Beauty is a spiritual thing , and the apprehension of beauty may take us far into the spiritual region , the ideal world . How vainely then doe ydle wits invent , That beautie is nought else but mixture made Of colours faire ...
... character . Beauty is a spiritual thing , and the apprehension of beauty may take us far into the spiritual region , the ideal world . How vainely then doe ydle wits invent , That beautie is nought else but mixture made Of colours faire ...
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... character ; but it is Miltonic none the less in its sureness , its great sim- plicity , its nobility of thought - in its richness in classical learning easily carried , in its full and deep music " making up full consort to the angelic ...
... character ; but it is Miltonic none the less in its sureness , its great sim- plicity , its nobility of thought - in its richness in classical learning easily carried , in its full and deep music " making up full consort to the angelic ...
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... Character in dem Strom der Welt , said Goethe , 1 and Milton's case illustrates this . Great gifts of nature , inexplicable to us here as always , but a great character is here too , buffeted in happiness and misery , trained in high ...
... Character in dem Strom der Welt , said Goethe , 1 and Milton's case illustrates this . Great gifts of nature , inexplicable to us here as always , but a great character is here too , buffeted in happiness and misery , trained in high ...
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... Character of Mrs Evelyn " was written by her son's tutor at Oxford , and some of her letters survive . These , like the printed letters of her husband , are mostly of the full - dress order -kept in both cases , one feels , in virtue of ...
... Character of Mrs Evelyn " was written by her son's tutor at Oxford , and some of her letters survive . These , like the printed letters of her husband , are mostly of the full - dress order -kept in both cases , one feels , in virtue of ...
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