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... eternal bound ) These moss - grown domes with spiry turrets crown'd , Where awful arches make a noon - day night , And the dim windows shed a solemn light . . That , in style and sensibility , is very close 103 THE AUGUSTAN TRADITION.
... eternal bound ) These moss - grown domes with spiry turrets crown'd , Where awful arches make a noon - day night , And the dim windows shed a solemn light . . That , in style and sensibility , is very close 103 THE AUGUSTAN TRADITION.
Page 104
... close to Gray's quatrains . Eloisa to Abelard , from which it comes , opens : In these deep solitudes and awful cells , Where heav'nly - pensive contemplation dwells , And ever - musing melancholy reigns . . . -In associating the ...
... close to Gray's quatrains . Eloisa to Abelard , from which it comes , opens : In these deep solitudes and awful cells , Where heav'nly - pensive contemplation dwells , And ever - musing melancholy reigns . . . -In associating the ...
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... close to his characteristic faults , but it has his characteristic virtues . It is of its essence to be in a mode remote from any form of wit . ' It is completely successful , yet we feel that its poise is an extremely delicate , almost ...
... close to his characteristic faults , but it has his characteristic virtues . It is of its essence to be in a mode remote from any form of wit . ' It is completely successful , yet we feel that its poise is an extremely delicate , almost ...
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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