Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... passed away . With such a quest a man must not be in a hurry , and he does best to linger in company with the great men whose work he wishes to understand , and to postpone criticism to intimacy . This book comes in the end to be a ...
... passed away . With such a quest a man must not be in a hurry , and he does best to linger in company with the great men whose work he wishes to understand , and to postpone criticism to intimacy . This book comes in the end to be a ...
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... passed in Ireland , with only an occasional visit to 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 ...
... passed in Ireland , with only an occasional visit to 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 ...
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... passing of a day , Of mortall life the leafe , the bud , the flowre ; Ne more doth florish after first decay , That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre Of many a lady , and many a Paramowre . Gather therefore the Rose whilest ...
... passing of a day , Of mortall life the leafe , the bud , the flowre ; Ne more doth florish after first decay , That earst was sought to deck both bed and bowre Of many a lady , and many a Paramowre . Gather therefore the Rose whilest ...
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... passed since Milton came home to serve his country - eighteen or so since he " covenanted with any knowing reader that for some few years he might go on trust with him " for the great life - work in poetry , and the poem was not written ...
... passed since Milton came home to serve his country - eighteen or so since he " covenanted with any knowing reader that for some few years he might go on trust with him " for the great life - work in poetry , and the poem was not written ...
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... passed over , and he was able to settle down to obscurity , poverty and his great poem at last . Slow choosing and beginning late , he had found his inevitable theme . The paper is extant still on which he sketched out long before his ...
... passed over , and he was able to settle down to obscurity , poverty and his great poem at last . Slow choosing and beginning late , he had found his inevitable theme . The paper is extant still on which he sketched out long before his ...
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