Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 - American Poetry (Collections) |
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... Taste is not to conform to the Art , but the Art to the Taste . The Spectator , no . 29 To be true to nature means to express what is enduring , essential , and comprehensible ; the accidental or irreg- ular is ugly and unnatural ...
... Taste is not to conform to the Art , but the Art to the Taste . The Spectator , no . 29 To be true to nature means to express what is enduring , essential , and comprehensible ; the accidental or irreg- ular is ugly and unnatural ...
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... taste . He ended , and his words replete with guile Into her heart too easie entrance won : Fixt on the Fruit she ... taste , Sollicited her longing eye ; yet first Pausing a while , thus to her self she mus'd . Great are thy Vertues ...
... taste . He ended , and his words replete with guile Into her heart too easie entrance won : Fixt on the Fruit she ... taste , Sollicited her longing eye ; yet first Pausing a while , thus to her self she mus'd . Great are thy Vertues ...
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... Tastes he wanted . What brought Sir Visto's ill got wealth to waste ? Some Dæmon whisper'd , " Visto ! have a Taste . ” Heav'n visits with a Taste the wealthy fool , And needs no Rod but Ripley with a Rule . See ! sportive fate , to ...
... Tastes he wanted . What brought Sir Visto's ill got wealth to waste ? Some Dæmon whisper'd , " Visto ! have a Taste . ” Heav'n visits with a Taste the wealthy fool , And needs no Rod but Ripley with a Rule . See ! sportive fate , to ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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