Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... turn might adapt it with as happy results ? A few lines from two letters of Spenser to Gabriel Harvey may sum up the story . " As for the twoo worthy Gentlemen , Master Sidney and Master Dyer , they have me , I thanke them , in some use ...
... turn might adapt it with as happy results ? A few lines from two letters of Spenser to Gabriel Harvey may sum up the story . " As for the twoo worthy Gentlemen , Master Sidney and Master Dyer , they have me , I thanke them , in some use ...
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... turning into palaces , and less of the poet's mind is given to their defences than to their tapestries and pictures . Here his Classical reading was fruitful of suggestion . Catullus and the Greek romances have many such descriptions ...
... turning into palaces , and less of the poet's mind is given to their defences than to their tapestries and pictures . Here his Classical reading was fruitful of suggestion . Catullus and the Greek romances have many such descriptions ...
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... turn given to the same series of ideas will not conceal the kinship . Cervantes had been himself a sort of Red Cross Knight , a fighter and a captive , a great and earnest nature , as full of generous impulse as of genial humour ...
... turn given to the same series of ideas will not conceal the kinship . Cervantes had been himself a sort of Red Cross Knight , a fighter and a captive , a great and earnest nature , as full of generous impulse as of genial humour ...
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... turn the things and is thrilled . There is passion in his prose - enthusiasm and hero - worship . He lives in a great age , an age of freedom and of victory— and round about him are men for whom it is all common- place . How can it be ...
... turn the things and is thrilled . There is passion in his prose - enthusiasm and hero - worship . He lives in a great age , an age of freedom and of victory— and round about him are men for whom it is all common- place . How can it be ...
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... turns the soul away from the divine and ideal world . " The soul by this means of over - bodying herself , given up ... turn the Omen from us ) than when the Inhabitants , to avoid insufferable Grievances at home , are inforc'd by heaps ...
... turns the soul away from the divine and ideal world . " The soul by this means of over - bodying herself , given up ... turn the Omen from us ) than when the Inhabitants , to avoid insufferable Grievances at home , are inforc'd by heaps ...
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