The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... Taste , an Epistle to a Young Critic WILLIAM SOMERVILLE ( 1677-17 + 2 ) • 185 185 · • 187 · • Edmund W. Gosse 189 • • · • 191 · • 192 Extract from The Chase , Book I · • Book II " • MATTHEW GREEN ( 1696-1737 ) • · • Austin Dobson 194 ...
... Taste , an Epistle to a Young Critic WILLIAM SOMERVILLE ( 1677-17 + 2 ) • 185 185 · • 187 · • Edmund W. Gosse 189 • • · • 191 · • 192 Extract from The Chase , Book I · • Book II " • MATTHEW GREEN ( 1696-1737 ) • · • Austin Dobson 194 ...
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... Taste and Small Estate ( from The Progress of Taste ) • 276 WILLIAM COLLINS ( 1721-1759 ) • Algernon Charles Swinburne 282 Ode to Liberty • Ode · 283 287 · Ode to Evening The Passions Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson 287 289 · 292 An Ode ...
... Taste and Small Estate ( from The Progress of Taste ) • 276 WILLIAM COLLINS ( 1721-1759 ) • Algernon Charles Swinburne 282 Ode to Liberty • Ode · 283 287 · Ode to Evening The Passions Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson 287 289 · 292 An Ode ...
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... taste and blameless character were not without their effect on the course of our poetry . He never , like Dryden , prostituted his Muse to utterly unworthy objects ; if his poetry is not free from ' courtly stains , ' it is at least ...
... taste and blameless character were not without their effect on the course of our poetry . He never , like Dryden , prostituted his Muse to utterly unworthy objects ; if his poetry is not free from ' courtly stains , ' it is at least ...
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... taste ; Nor beaten paths be longer traced . No simile shall be begun , With rising or with setting sun ; And let the secret head of Nile Be ever banish'd from your isle . When wretched lovers live on air , I beg you'll the chameleon ...
... taste ; Nor beaten paths be longer traced . No simile shall be begun , With rising or with setting sun ; And let the secret head of Nile Be ever banish'd from your isle . When wretched lovers live on air , I beg you'll the chameleon ...
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... taste . Certainly the court of Louis XIV exercised a great influence in all matters of taste . But this influence of fashion ceased when the ascendency of France was broken by the war of the Spanish succession , while the direction ...
... taste . Certainly the court of Louis XIV exercised a great influence in all matters of taste . But this influence of fashion ceased when the ascendency of France was broken by the war of the Spanish succession , while the direction ...
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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