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... thou overcom'st thou shalt be crown'd . -That neat play on ' Chordage , ' giving as it does a new force to the conventional figure of being held in bonds of music , reminds us that a strain of the Metaphysical is , in this mode , blent ...
... thou overcom'st thou shalt be crown'd . -That neat play on ' Chordage , ' giving as it does a new force to the conventional figure of being held in bonds of music , reminds us that a strain of the Metaphysical is , in this mode , blent ...
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... Thou unreplenished lamp ! whose narrow fire Is shaken by the wind , and on whose edge Devouring darkness hovers ! Thou small flame , Which , as a dying pulse rises and falls , Still flickerest up and down , how very soon , Did I not ...
... Thou unreplenished lamp ! whose narrow fire Is shaken by the wind , and on whose edge Devouring darkness hovers ! Thou small flame , Which , as a dying pulse rises and falls , Still flickerest up and down , how very soon , Did I not ...
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... thou kiss , Though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve ; She cannot fade , though thou hast not thy bliss , For ever wilt thou love and she be fair ! -the implicit bargain is within half a dozen lines of this forgotten : More ...
... thou kiss , Though winning near the goal - yet do not grieve ; She cannot fade , though thou hast not thy bliss , For ever wilt thou love and she be fair ! -the implicit bargain is within half a dozen lines of this forgotten : More ...
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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