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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... pieces which have come down to " Shirley , " observes Lamb , " claims a place among the worthies of this period , not so much for any transcendent genius in himself , as that he was the last of a great race , all of whom spoke nearly ...
... pieces which have come down to " Shirley , " observes Lamb , " claims a place among the worthies of this period , not so much for any transcendent genius in himself , as that he was the last of a great race , all of whom spoke nearly ...
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... piece here ( if any may be called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . " The missing comedy of The Wild Goose Chase had been lost , he tells us in another passage , by ...
... piece here ( if any may be called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . " The missing comedy of The Wild Goose Chase had been lost , he tells us in another passage , by ...
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... pieces , as for instance in his well - known Song of Anarchus , portions of which have been printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called ...
... pieces , as for instance in his well - known Song of Anarchus , portions of which have been printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called ...
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... pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there is often a force and even occasionally what may be called a grandeur of imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.t ...
... pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there is often a force and even occasionally what may be called a grandeur of imagination in his more solemn poetry which Herrick never either reaches or aspires to.t ...
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... pieces consisting merely of the elabo- ration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness than Waller , he is far from having so much dignity , variety , or power of sustained effort . His songs beginning " He that loves a ...
... pieces consisting merely of the elabo- ration of some single idea ; and , if he has more tenderness than Waller , he is far from having so much dignity , variety , or power of sustained effort . His songs beginning " He that loves a ...
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