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Page 86
... seems to me finer than anything in Dryden ; decidedly finer , for instance , than the comparable part of Mac Flecknoe . It has a greater intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in ...
... seems to me finer than anything in Dryden ; decidedly finer , for instance , than the comparable part of Mac Flecknoe . It has a greater intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in ...
Page 107
... seems more fitly called a success of taste , of literary sense , than of creative talent . Collins had little positive feeling for the Augustan strength ; on the other hand , he had nothing positive of any kind strong enough to ...
... seems more fitly called a success of taste , of literary sense , than of creative talent . Collins had little positive feeling for the Augustan strength ; on the other hand , he had nothing positive of any kind strong enough to ...
Page 214
... seems to derive from what is presented . The point is very obviously and impressively exemplified in A slumber did ... seem to be presented barely , and the emotional force to be generated by them in the reader's mind when he has taken ...
... seems to derive from what is presented . The point is very obviously and impressively exemplified in A slumber did ... seem to be presented barely , and the emotional force to be generated by them in the reader's mind when he has taken ...
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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