Essays by Divers Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomH. Mulford, Oxford University Press, 1977 - English literature |
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Page 105
... light against night : But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears , and from the walls of Heav'n Shoots farr into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn ; here Nature first begins Her fardest verge , and Chaos to retire As ...
... light against night : But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears , and from the walls of Heav'n Shoots farr into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn ; here Nature first begins Her fardest verge , and Chaos to retire As ...
Page 107
... light can stream as a beam does . But the integrating rhyme , or rather the living principle of the passage , is light , which moves from the first line to become positioned as a rhyme in line 3 and then at once to rhyme with itself in ...
... light can stream as a beam does . But the integrating rhyme , or rather the living principle of the passage , is light , which moves from the first line to become positioned as a rhyme in line 3 and then at once to rhyme with itself in ...
Page 108
... light ' with its con- clusive ' sight ' : So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers Irradiate , there plant eyes , all mist from thence Purge and disperse , that I may see and tell Of ...
... light ' with its con- clusive ' sight ' : So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers Irradiate , there plant eyes , all mist from thence Purge and disperse , that I may see and tell Of ...
Contents
The Wedmore Memorial Lecture 1975 | 24 |
Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture 1974 | 47 |
The Giff Edmonds Memorial Lecture 1975 | 57 |
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