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Page 97
... Reason doubtful , like the Samian letter , Points him two ways , the narrower is the 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 ...
... Reason doubtful , like the Samian letter , Points him two ways , the narrower is the 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 ...
Page 126
... reason's self , ' a ' reason ' the authority of which Crabbe's matter recognizes as naturally as Sybil recognizes it in the passage quoted . And the last line illustrates the kind of point to which ' wit ' in Crabbe so appropriately ...
... reason's self , ' a ' reason ' the authority of which Crabbe's matter recognizes as naturally as Sybil recognizes it in the passage quoted . And the last line illustrates the kind of point to which ' wit ' in Crabbe so appropriately ...
Page 159
... reason for his remark , and one can think of passages he might cite . But the principal document is Book II of The Prelude , and Wordsworth there stresses the mother : he explicitly and at length relates the mode of experience ...
... reason for his remark , and one can think of passages he might cite . But the principal document is Book II of The Prelude , and Wordsworth there stresses the mother : he explicitly and at length relates the mode of experience ...
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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