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Page iii
... seem to be times when the interpreter may well perform his services before the shrines of the oracles and translate - so far as translation is possible- the inspired language of " the literature of power , " as De Quincey calls it ...
... seem to be times when the interpreter may well perform his services before the shrines of the oracles and translate - so far as translation is possible- the inspired language of " the literature of power , " as De Quincey calls it ...
Page xiii
... seems to have been considerable , and which was based very largely upon a happy lyrical vein and a ready metrical facility . Gascoigne died two years later , and few of his poetical contemporaries long survived him , if we except ...
... seems to have been considerable , and which was based very largely upon a happy lyrical vein and a ready metrical facility . Gascoigne died two years later , and few of his poetical contemporaries long survived him , if we except ...
Page xxii
... seems worthy of attention , while by no 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 ...
... seems worthy of attention , while by no 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 ...
Page xxiii
... seems to me that no one , excepting Shakespeare , with Sidney , Gre- ville , and Jonson in lesser measure , has done so much to develop intellectualized emotion in the Elizabethan lyric as John Donne . But Donne is the last poet to ...
... seems to me that no one , excepting Shakespeare , with Sidney , Gre- ville , and Jonson in lesser measure , has done so much to develop intellectualized emotion in the Elizabethan lyric as John Donne . But Donne is the last poet to ...
Page xxiv
... seem that the Drayton of later years should have continued well skilled in the lighter lyrical touch . It would be difficult to find a more perfect union of artistic feeling with fervent passion than is contained in " I pray thee leave ...
... seem that the Drayton of later years should have continued well skilled in the lighter lyrical touch . It would be difficult to find a more perfect union of artistic feeling with fervent passion than is contained in " I pray thee leave ...
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