Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... light and easy to him who looks at the world in the spirit of love . " Poetry depends on truth , on true feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for ...
... light and easy to him who looks at the world in the spirit of love . " Poetry depends on truth , on true feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for ...
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... Light , the Light in every man's lips , but mark their eyes , and you will say that they are rather like owls than eagles no more ado about caps and surplices Mr Cartwright quite forgotten . " 1 Here we have the Cambridge life of ...
... Light , the Light in every man's lips , but mark their eyes , and you will say that they are rather like owls than eagles no more ado about caps and surplices Mr Cartwright quite forgotten . " 1 Here we have the Cambridge life of ...
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... light- Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow- or even a single word ? Can he weigh right against wrong , true against false ? No , it proves that these can- not be weighed against each other . Talus , the iron squire ...
... light- Or weigh the thought that from mans mind doth flow- or even a single word ? Can he weigh right against wrong , true against false ? No , it proves that these can- not be weighed against each other . Talus , the iron squire ...
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... light to the reader , " the poet says that " The generall end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle dis- cipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing , being ...
... light to the reader , " the poet says that " The generall end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle dis- cipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing , being ...
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... light , Whose life and manners straunge she never knew ( v . 6 , 12 ) . But she learns the truth and buckles on her arms again and rescues him like the heroine she is . Carlyle once wrote of " Spenser's frosty allegories , " but he ...
... light , Whose life and manners straunge she never knew ( v . 6 , 12 ) . But she learns the truth and buckles on her arms again and rescues him like the heroine she is . Carlyle once wrote of " Spenser's frosty allegories , " but he ...
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