The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... charm is altogether loosed by the absurd appearance of Silence , draped in ' a melancholy Thought , ' and insecurely seated upon an ancient Sigh , ' - an intrusion from which the reader barely recovers in time to re- cognise a strange ...
... charm is altogether loosed by the absurd appearance of Silence , draped in ' a melancholy Thought , ' and insecurely seated upon an ancient Sigh , ' - an intrusion from which the reader barely recovers in time to re- cognise a strange ...
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... charm that they may at one time have had . But as a versifier Garth must always deserve a place in the story of English literature . Claremont and his other minor works display the same faculty , but at their date it was already common ...
... charm that they may at one time have had . But as a versifier Garth must always deserve a place in the story of English literature . Claremont and his other minor works display the same faculty , but at their date it was already common ...
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... charm ' of Piron's epigram , —that fugitive je ne sais quoi of gaiety , of wit , of grace , of audacity , it is impossible to say what , which eludes analysis as the prin- ciple of life escapes the anatomist . In the present case it ...
... charm ' of Piron's epigram , —that fugitive je ne sais quoi of gaiety , of wit , of grace , of audacity , it is impossible to say what , which eludes analysis as the prin- ciple of life escapes the anatomist . In the present case it ...
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... charms and perfect beauty bright ; When odours , which declined repelling day , Through temperate air uninterrupted stray ; When darkened groves their softest shadows wear , And falling waters we distinctly hear ; When through the gloom ...
... charms and perfect beauty bright ; When odours , which declined repelling day , Through temperate air uninterrupted stray ; When darkened groves their softest shadows wear , And falling waters we distinctly hear ; When through the gloom ...
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... charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe , Wit grew polite , and numbers learn'd to flow . ' De Quincey ( Works , vol . 9 ) expatiates upon the deficiencies of this explanation of a ...
... charms ; Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms ; Britain to soft refinements less a foe , Wit grew polite , and numbers learn'd to flow . ' De Quincey ( Works , vol . 9 ) expatiates upon the deficiencies of this explanation of a ...
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Addison admiration ALLAN RAMSAY Ambrose Philips beauty beneath blest born breast breath Burns Castle of Indolence charm Chatterton critics dear death delight Dryden Dunciad e'er Eclogues English English poetry Epistle Ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate feel fool frae genius GEORGE SAINTSBURY grace Gratius Faliscus grave Gray Grongar Hill hand happy hear heart heaven kings labour literary live Lord Lord Hervey mind moral muse nature ne'er never night numbers o'er once pain passion perhaps Pindaric pleasure poem poet poet's poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise pride prose rhyme rise round satire sense shade shine sing smile song soul spirit Spleen sweet Swift taste tear tell thee things THOMAS TICKELL Thomson thou thought thro toil trembling truth Twas verse virtue Whig wind wise write youth