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Page xi
... Stanza . - Davenant's " Gondibert . " V. The Neglect of Milton .... CHAPTER II . -- Page 1 I. Number of Books Printed at End of Seventeenth Century . Interest in Classics a Hundred Years Earlier . - The Civil Wars had Injured the Free ...
... Stanza . - Davenant's " Gondibert . " V. The Neglect of Milton .... CHAPTER II . -- Page 1 I. Number of Books Printed at End of Seventeenth Century . Interest in Classics a Hundred Years Earlier . - The Civil Wars had Injured the Free ...
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... stanzas now like the ripples and now like the gulfs of the sea , " etc. ( " Essays , " p . 255 ) . Lyly might have written this line : " Neither by defect of form nor by any de- fault of force " ( ib . p . 108 ) . For conceits outdoing ...
... stanzas now like the ripples and now like the gulfs of the sea , " etc. ( " Essays , " p . 255 ) . Lyly might have written this line : " Neither by defect of form nor by any de- fault of force " ( ib . p . 108 ) . For conceits outdoing ...
Page 29
... Discreet Religion binds us to admire The ways of Providence and not inquire . " See also Joseph Hall's verses , infra , and compare Sylvester's " Du Bartas . " What the couplet did was to replace the stanza : English Literature . 29.
... Discreet Religion binds us to admire The ways of Providence and not inquire . " See also Joseph Hall's verses , infra , and compare Sylvester's " Du Bartas . " What the couplet did was to replace the stanza : English Literature . 29.
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... stanza or sentence so much as fills the mind to the utmost strain of its capacity for attention ; and then a pause for reflection and digestion . " Take for an example any stanza from the " Fairy Queen " ( IV . 2 , xvi . , for instance ) ...
... stanza or sentence so much as fills the mind to the utmost strain of its capacity for attention ; and then a pause for reflection and digestion . " Take for an example any stanza from the " Fairy Queen " ( IV . 2 , xvi . , for instance ) ...
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... stanza and a proof that the change was not wholly due to French influence— although few will think that any change of the sort has but one cause — is Davenant's " Gondibert " ( 1650 ) . This is a most tedious poem , which would never be ...
... stanza and a proof that the change was not wholly due to French influence— although few will think that any change of the sort has but one cause — is Davenant's " Gondibert " ( 1650 ) . This is a most tedious poem , which would never be ...
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