Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... 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 up again , and read on till the Blatant ...
... 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 up again , and read on till the Blatant ...
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... mind . It invades and it penetrates , and insensibly , it brings peace . O ! turne thy rudder hitherward awhile Here may thy storme - bett vessell safely ryde , This is the Port of rest from troublous toyle , The worldes sweet In from ...
... mind . It invades and it penetrates , and insensibly , it brings peace . O ! turne thy rudder hitherward awhile Here may thy storme - bett vessell safely ryde , This is the Port of rest from troublous toyle , The worldes sweet In from ...
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... 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 if , in years long after , the poet's praise of Elizabeth seems ...
... 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 if , in years long after , the poet's praise of Elizabeth seems ...
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... mind absorb life in a wonderful way . Few periods of English history have been so interesting and so various . To begin with , there was the new sense for truth , and the new search for truth , together embodied in the great parallel ...
... mind absorb life in a wonderful way . Few periods of English history have been so interesting and so various . To begin with , there was the new sense for truth , and the new search for truth , together embodied in the great parallel ...
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... 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 , begins to suspect the Giant , and in his abrupt ...
... 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 , begins to suspect the Giant , and in his abrupt ...
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