Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... Poets ' opens thus beauti- fully : A poet could not sleep aright , For his soul kept up too much light Under his eyelids for the night . And thus he rose disquieted Where , sloping up the darkest glades , The moon had drawn long ...
... Poets ' opens thus beauti- fully : A poet could not sleep aright , For his soul kept up too much light Under his eyelids for the night . And thus he rose disquieted Where , sloping up the darkest glades , The moon had drawn long ...
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... POET - TRANSLATORS - BOWRING , BLACKIE , ETC. The most re- The poet - translators of this period are numerous . markable for knowledge of foreign tongues and dialects was SIR JOHN BOWRING , who commenced in 1821 a large series of ...
... POET - TRANSLATORS - BOWRING , BLACKIE , ETC. The most re- The poet - translators of this period are numerous . markable for knowledge of foreign tongues and dialects was SIR JOHN BOWRING , who commenced in 1821 a large series of ...
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... poet , and the actual coherence of the exist- ing poem . The principal value of Wolf's theory , in the eye of many genuine lovers of poetry , is that , while it robbed us of the poet Homer and his swarms of fair fancies , it restored to ...
... poet , and the actual coherence of the exist- ing poem . The principal value of Wolf's theory , in the eye of many genuine lovers of poetry , is that , while it robbed us of the poet Homer and his swarms of fair fancies , it restored to ...
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