The English Poets: Addison to BlakeThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1913 - English poetry |
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... youth , ' but during the same years the same writer was maturing the Tale of a Tub . Swift had no ear save for the discords of the world , and in such cases a stiff regular measure , which is a sort of rhythmic policeman , is the only ...
... youth , ' but during the same years the same writer was maturing the Tale of a Tub . Swift had no ear save for the discords of the world , and in such cases a stiff regular measure , which is a sort of rhythmic policeman , is the only ...
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... youth with broomy stumps began to trace The kennel's edge , where wheels had worn the place . The small - coal man was heard with cadence deep , Till drown'd in shriller notes of chimney - sweep : Duns at his lordship's gate began to ...
... youth with broomy stumps began to trace The kennel's edge , where wheels had worn the place . The small - coal man was heard with cadence deep , Till drown'd in shriller notes of chimney - sweep : Duns at his lordship's gate began to ...
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... youth was spent at Binfield in the skirts of Windsor Forest . Pope was brought up a Catholic , his father , though the son of a beneficed clergyman of the Established Church , having become a convert to Catholicism during a resi- dence ...
... youth was spent at Binfield in the skirts of Windsor Forest . Pope was brought up a Catholic , his father , though the son of a beneficed clergyman of the Established Church , having become a convert to Catholicism during a resi- dence ...
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... youth of seventeen they are a marvellous feat of melodious versification . In any other respect they are only worthy of mention as already exemplifying the false taste which Pope never got rid of when he attempted any other theme than ...
... youth of seventeen they are a marvellous feat of melodious versification . In any other respect they are only worthy of mention as already exemplifying the false taste which Pope never got rid of when he attempted any other theme than ...
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... on the bosom of the silver Thames . Fair nymphs , and well - drest youths around her shone , But every eye was fix'd on her alone . On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , ALEXANDER POPE . 73 The Rape of the Lock, Canto II.
... on the bosom of the silver Thames . Fair nymphs , and well - drest youths around her shone , But every eye was fix'd on her alone . On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore , ALEXANDER POPE . 73 The Rape of the Lock, Canto II.
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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