Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 71
... heart and fancy . As for Gray's baroque conventionalities of phrase , these , when introduced , as it were , with a smile , enhance his wit by a delightful ironical stylishness : The hapless Nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first and ...
... heart and fancy . As for Gray's baroque conventionalities of phrase , these , when introduced , as it were , with a smile , enhance his wit by a delightful ironical stylishness : The hapless Nymph with wonder saw : A whisker first and ...
Page 89
... heart . Sensitively she can perceive the significance of the small gesture , the almost imperceptible movement indicating the hidden trend of emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young ...
... heart . Sensitively she can perceive the significance of the small gesture , the almost imperceptible movement indicating the hidden trend of emotion . How justly she describes Cecilia's gradual discovery that her heart is lost to young ...
Page 130
... heart , those that hunger and thirst after right- cousness . Love to him is the fulfilling of the law . Further he has the Christian sense of the congenital frailty and imperfection of human beings . " There was no reproach in her heart ...
... heart , those that hunger and thirst after right- cousness . Love to him is the fulfilling of the law . Further he has the Christian sense of the congenital frailty and imperfection of human beings . " There was no reproach in her heart ...
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