A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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... imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.t CARTWRIGHT ; RANDOLPH ; CORBET . All the poetical clergymen of this time , however , had not such pious muses . The Rev. William Cartwright , who ...
... imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.t CARTWRIGHT ; RANDOLPH ; CORBET . All the poetical clergymen of this time , however , had not such pious muses . The Rev. William Cartwright , who ...
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... imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance of most of his pieces consisting merely of the elabo- ration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness ...
... imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance of most of his pieces consisting merely of the elabo- ration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness ...
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... imagination and feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived ...
... imagination and feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived ...
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... imagination to the true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . * Reason of Church Government , Book II . HALES ; CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names ...
... imagination to the true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . * Reason of Church Government , Book II . HALES ; CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names ...
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... imagination ; in a soul made alike for the feeling of the sublime , of the beau- tiful , and of the picturesque ; and in a style , answering in its compass , flexibility , and sweetness to the demands of 52 22 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ...
... imagination ; in a soul made alike for the feeling of the sublime , of the beau- tiful , and of the picturesque ; and in a style , answering in its compass , flexibility , and sweetness to the demands of 52 22 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ...
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