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Page ix
... Less than any other form of literature conceivable should the lyric be didactic ; for by the intrusion of didacticism a particular in- stance , with its pendent maxim , is substituted for a general truth , and a product of fine art ...
... Less than any other form of literature conceivable should the lyric be didactic ; for by the intrusion of didacticism a particular in- stance , with its pendent maxim , is substituted for a general truth , and a product of fine art ...
Page x
Felix Emmanuel Schelling. excellence . The following pages will be found far less grave than those of many such collections ; and I have no apology to offer for the fact . Inasmuch as the lyric demands a grasp of the subtler forms of ...
Felix Emmanuel Schelling. excellence . The following pages will be found far less grave than those of many such collections ; and I have no apology to offer for the fact . Inasmuch as the lyric demands a grasp of the subtler forms of ...
Page xii
... less were the scholars and courtiers Englishmen , and hence before long we find the foreign lyrical graft , strengthened by a real love and study of the classics , and rendered hardy by the infusion of a genuine vernacular spirit . The ...
... less were the scholars and courtiers Englishmen , and hence before long we find the foreign lyrical graft , strengthened by a real love and study of the classics , and rendered hardy by the infusion of a genuine vernacular spirit . The ...
Page xvi
... less imitation of Italian models by his immediate successors , but not rendered a power until the masterly grasp of Astrophel and Stella , the earliest sonnet sequence in the language . Though written much earlier , this work 1 The ...
... less imitation of Italian models by his immediate successors , but not rendered a power until the masterly grasp of Astrophel and Stella , the earliest sonnet sequence in the language . Though written much earlier , this work 1 The ...
Page xviii
... less connected love story , of greater or less probable basis in fact ; another class dealing with the praises of a mistress or lamenting her hardness of heart as Phyllis , Cynthia , and Diana or Watson's Tears of Fancy . Yet another ...
... less connected love story , of greater or less probable basis in fact ; another class dealing with the praises of a mistress or lamenting her hardness of heart as Phyllis , Cynthia , and Diana or Watson's Tears of Fancy . Yet another ...
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