English Poems from Chaucer to KiplingThomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long |
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... spirit , so long exiled from English verse , began about the middle of the eighteenth century to show its head again . We catch its first notes in Johnson's contemporaries , Thomas Gray ( 1716–1771 ) and Oliver Goldsmith ( 1728-1774 ) ...
... spirit , so long exiled from English verse , began about the middle of the eighteenth century to show its head again . We catch its first notes in Johnson's contemporaries , Thomas Gray ( 1716–1771 ) and Oliver Goldsmith ( 1728-1774 ) ...
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... spirit that was awakening in England , and to breathe into their poetry a mystical passion and a dreamy languor hitherto unknown in English verse . As a whole , the age was , in the matter of form and subject , one of the most diverse ...
... spirit that was awakening in England , and to breathe into their poetry a mystical passion and a dreamy languor hitherto unknown in English verse . As a whole , the age was , in the matter of form and subject , one of the most diverse ...
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... spirit of those days . Like his friends Raleigh and Sidney , he was himself a soldier and a diplomat as well as a poet ; but while their names are remembered rather for their achievements in the world of deeds , Spenser's would be for ...
... spirit of those days . Like his friends Raleigh and Sidney , he was himself a soldier and a diplomat as well as a poet ; but while their names are remembered rather for their achievements in the world of deeds , Spenser's would be for ...
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... spirit of Plato , to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or underground , Whose power hath a true ...
... spirit of Plato , to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; And of those demons that are found In fire , air , flood , or underground , Whose power hath a true ...
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... Spirit to mortals good , Or the unseen Genius of the wood . But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale , And love the high embowéd roof , With antique pillars massy - proof , And storied windows richly dight ...
... Spirit to mortals good , Or the unseen Genius of the wood . But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale , And love the high embowéd roof , With antique pillars massy - proof , And storied windows richly dight ...
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