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Page xii
... mean part , was based upon a study of the ancients . No 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 ...
... mean part , was based upon a study of the ancients . No 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 ...
Page xviii
... means of successive lyrical moods a more or 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 ...
... means of successive lyrical moods a more or 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 ...
Page xxii
... means explaining everything . " Donne was , I would venture to suggest , by far the most modern and con- temporaneous of the writers of his time . . . He arrived at an excess of actuality of style , and it was because he struck them as ...
... means explaining everything . " Donne was , I would venture to suggest , by far the most modern and con- temporaneous of the writers of his time . . . He arrived at an excess of actuality of style , and it was because he struck them as ...
Page liv
... mean- ings sufficiently obvious . It is useless to attempt the pres- ervation of distinctions wholly artificial . Similar conditions produce similar results ; and we do not need the Provençal tenzone to account for the English brawl nor ...
... mean- ings sufficiently obvious . It is useless to attempt the pres- ervation of distinctions wholly artificial . Similar conditions produce similar results ; and we do not need the Provençal tenzone to account for the English brawl nor ...
Page lv
... means of a preference for feminine rimes . The majority of these madrigals on Italian models occur in the earlier collections of Byrd , Morley , and Dowland , and in the Musica Transalpina , which purports to be a mere translation . In ...
... means of a preference for feminine rimes . The majority of these madrigals on Italian models occur in the earlier collections of Byrd , Morley , and Dowland , and in the Musica Transalpina , which purports to be a mere translation . In ...
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