Nature in Eighteenth Century PoetryUniversity of Allahabad, 1964 - 117 pages |
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Page 13
... fancy entirely . They have such a dread for Fancy as to feel that waywardness and frivolousness are born of it . 1 . 2 . ' From Fancy's forge , gay Fancy smiles , At Reason plain and cool , Fancy whose curious trade it is To make the ...
... fancy entirely . They have such a dread for Fancy as to feel that waywardness and frivolousness are born of it . 1 . 2 . ' From Fancy's forge , gay Fancy smiles , At Reason plain and cool , Fancy whose curious trade it is To make the ...
Page 36
... Fancy ' ; ' Rural Elegance ' , and ' Pleasures of Imagination ' . And these subjects , happily chose such measures as had rhythm and poetic graces . Short , simple measure , the iambic and the anapaest , the free enjambed couplet , the ...
... Fancy ' ; ' Rural Elegance ' , and ' Pleasures of Imagination ' . And these subjects , happily chose such measures as had rhythm and poetic graces . Short , simple measure , the iambic and the anapaest , the free enjambed couplet , the ...
Page 61
... fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it . In didactic poetry of which the great purpose is instruction , a simile may be praised which illustrates though it does not ennoble ; in ...
... fancy with greater dignity ; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it . In didactic poetry of which the great purpose is instruction , a simile may be praised which illustrates though it does not ennoble ; in ...
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appear aspects of Nature atmosphere Autumn background birds blooming breathing bright Century Nature Poetry charms classical Claudian clouds convention couplet created critics David Nicol delight diction divinity Dodsley Eighteenth Century Nature Eighteenth Century poets emotion English express fading Fancy favour feeling flocks flowers forests fresh genius Gilfillan green groves harmony Hildebrand Jacob hills human Ibid images imagination imitation inspiration James Thomson Joseph Warton Kensington Garden KHATTRY landscape landscape art Lansdown lastly literary literature living metaphor midst mind models Monody mood moral mountain murmurs Muse Nature's beauties Nineteenth Century o'er observation painting passion pastoral peace pleasure poems poet's poetic Pope realised Reason reflected rills romantic rose rural scenes sense shade Shenstone sincere sing smile solitude song spring stream suggestions things Thomas Denton Thomas Warton Thomson thought thro tion trees verse vivid wave William Lisle Bowles William Shenstone wind woods write