EssaysW. Heinemann, 1896 - 312 էջ |
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Էջ 60
... turn for dry and laborious criticism : he studied things more than words : of his own skill in dead languages , though it was in reality very considerable , he spoke jestingly , in that depreciating ironical way that he always used of ...
... turn for dry and laborious criticism : he studied things more than words : of his own skill in dead languages , though it was in reality very considerable , he spoke jestingly , in that depreciating ironical way that he always used of ...
Էջ 83
... turns a noun into a picture ; the " hook - shouldered " hill " to abrupter greatness thrust , " " the sugar's uncorrupting oil , " " the vigilant patrol of stars , ' " the squatted thorns , " " the oranges like golden lamps in a green ...
... turns a noun into a picture ; the " hook - shouldered " hill " to abrupter greatness thrust , " " the sugar's uncorrupting oil , " " the vigilant patrol of stars , ' " the squatted thorns , " " the oranges like golden lamps in a green ...
Էջ 95
... turn back from the brink and make the great denial ; whether from the secret consciousness of aridity , the drying of the fount of song , or from the im- perious temptations of the busy , ordinary world we cannot say . Somehow we have ...
... turn back from the brink and make the great denial ; whether from the secret consciousness of aridity , the drying of the fount of song , or from the im- perious temptations of the busy , ordinary world we cannot say . Somehow we have ...
Էջ 104
... obliged to supply what is called the turn . . . If a Latin poem is neat , elegant , and musical , it is enough ; but English readers are not so easily · satisfied . To quote myself , you will find , 104 Vincent Bourne.
... obliged to supply what is called the turn . . . If a Latin poem is neat , elegant , and musical , it is enough ; but English readers are not so easily · satisfied . To quote myself , you will find , 104 Vincent Bourne.
Էջ 105
... turn to the poems in detail , almost the first thing that strikes one is the originality of his subjects . Nothing was common or unclean to our poet , at a time when poetry , except in Cowper's hands , was grandiose and affected to an ...
... turn to the poems in detail , almost the first thing that strikes one is the originality of his subjects . Nothing was common or unclean to our poet , at a time when poetry , except in Cowper's hands , was grandiose and affected to an ...
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