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Page 132
... melancholy boughs , Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time , 1 he means that he finds their situation gloomy and depressing , rather frightening , perhaps a little pathetic : certainly not that he finds it agreeably romantic ...
... melancholy boughs , Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time , 1 he means that he finds their situation gloomy and depressing , rather frightening , perhaps a little pathetic : certainly not that he finds it agreeably romantic ...
Page 133
... melancholy ' , but , already in 1659 we find Wood enjoying a refreshing melancholy in a romancy place , and more than forty years before that Fletcher had discovered the sweetness of melancholy and of scenes where that sweetness could ...
... melancholy ' , but , already in 1659 we find Wood enjoying a refreshing melancholy in a romancy place , and more than forty years before that Fletcher had discovered the sweetness of melancholy and of scenes where that sweetness could ...
Page 134
... melancholy in the serious Burtonian sense : of those oscillations between exaltation and dejection which attend the unrestrained indulgence of solitary imagination , and which , if not checked , may finally unhinge the mind . Here is a ...
... melancholy in the serious Burtonian sense : of those oscillations between exaltation and dejection which attend the unrestrained indulgence of solitary imagination , and which , if not checked , may finally unhinge the mind . Here is a ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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