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... once stirred , She runs you through , nor asks the word . Now both of these may be fairly described as charmingly and gracefully playful . But it should be plain at once that Marvell's in its playfulness has a strength that Herrick's ...
... once stirred , She runs you through , nor asks the word . Now both of these may be fairly described as charmingly and gracefully playful . But it should be plain at once that Marvell's in its playfulness has a strength that Herrick's ...
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... awakening surprise is to stand out ( with an effect suggestive of The Ancient Mariner ) : When down behind the cottage roof , At once , the bright moon dropped . Then , dramatically , to the Lover and to us 201 WORDSWORTH.
... awakening surprise is to stand out ( with an effect suggestive of The Ancient Mariner ) : When down behind the cottage roof , At once , the bright moon dropped . Then , dramatically , to the Lover and to us 201 WORDSWORTH.
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... once mingled Love first leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your ...
... once mingled Love first leaves the well - built nest ; The weak one is singled To endure what it once possessed . O Love ! who bewailest The frailty of all things here , Why choose you the frailest For your cradle , your home , and your ...
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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