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Page 97
... better . Plac'd at the door of Learning , youth to guide , We never suffer it to stand too wide . To ask , to guess , to know , as they commence , As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense , We ply the Memory , we load the brain , Bind ...
... better . Plac'd at the door of Learning , youth to guide , We never suffer it to stand too wide . To ask , to guess , to know , as they commence , As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense , We ply the Memory , we load the brain , Bind ...
Page 149
... better ; for not one am I Of those who think damnation better still : I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small hope of bettering future ill By circumscribing , with some slight restriction , The eternity of hell's hot ...
... better ; for not one am I Of those who think damnation better still : I hardly know too if not quite alone am I In this small hope of bettering future ill By circumscribing , with some slight restriction , The eternity of hell's hot ...
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... better art than Mr. Symons recognizes ; it is better in a way involving a relation to life that the prescription ' art for art's sake ( whatever it may mean ) would not tend to encourage . On the other hand , to talk of the Ode as ...
... better art than Mr. Symons recognizes ; it is better in a way involving a relation to life that the prescription ' art for art's sake ( whatever it may mean ) would not tend to encourage . On the other hand , to talk of the Ode as ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth