Wordsworth to TennysonH. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1913 |
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... Dead Hand - Necessary Nuisances - How to Quarrel - Counsels of Perfection - Eccentrics - Great - Freedom -Doing Without - Clerical Errors - Courtesy - Self - deception- The Marriage Lottery - A New Law of Libel - Temper - De Jure v . De ...
... Dead Hand - Necessary Nuisances - How to Quarrel - Counsels of Perfection - Eccentrics - Great - Freedom -Doing Without - Clerical Errors - Courtesy - Self - deception- The Marriage Lottery - A New Law of Libel - Temper - De Jure v . De ...
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... dead victims on a cold - dead altar . I cannot but recognize that the mass of his verse has ceased to please . That is the common fate of poetry in bulk . It must be conceded that the rule applies especi- ally here . Ordinary readers ...
... dead victims on a cold - dead altar . I cannot but recognize that the mass of his verse has ceased to please . That is the common fate of poetry in bulk . It must be conceded that the rule applies especi- ally here . Ordinary readers ...
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... dead lion of thought . To take offence at Wordsworth because the philosopher in him is , it must be acknowledged , never very far off , would be to banish ourselves from his kingdom of poetry altogether . Ideas , vast and lofty , are ...
... dead lion of thought . To take offence at Wordsworth because the philosopher in him is , it must be acknowledged , never very far off , would be to banish ourselves from his kingdom of poetry altogether . Ideas , vast and lofty , are ...
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... a nun : In he came with eyes of flame The Devil to fetch the dead , And all the Church with his presence glow'd , Like a fiery furnace red . He laid his hand on the iron chains , And 40 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
... a nun : In he came with eyes of flame The Devil to fetch the dead , And all the Church with his presence glow'd , Like a fiery furnace red . He laid his hand on the iron chains , And 40 FIVE CENTURIES OF ENGLISH VERSE.
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... dead flesh quiver'd with fear , And a groan like that which the Old Woman gave Never did mortal hear . She follow'd her Master to the church door , There stood a black horse there ; His breath was red like furnace smoke , His eyes like ...
... dead flesh quiver'd with fear , And a groan like that which the Old Woman gave Never did mortal hear . She follow'd her Master to the church door , There stood a black horse there ; His breath was red like furnace smoke , His eyes like ...
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