ComusCambridge University Press, 1912 - 143 pages |
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Page xxxii
... phrase or addition of a descriptive detail . Going over the same ground as other writers with whom he is in any degree familiar , a poet can scarcely escape being influenced in some way , even though he is quite unaware of it . ( 4 ) ...
... phrase or addition of a descriptive detail . Going over the same ground as other writers with whom he is in any degree familiar , a poet can scarcely escape being influenced in some way , even though he is quite unaware of it . ( 4 ) ...
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... phrases that for their curious felicity are , as Archbishop Trench said , " poems in miniature , " evanescent touches that recall to the classical reader the old and happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome - these qualities , that ...
... phrases that for their curious felicity are , as Archbishop Trench said , " poems in miniature , " evanescent touches that recall to the classical reader the old and happy , far - off things of Athens and Rome - these qualities , that ...
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... phrase , to mend my draught ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) , and to have begged your conversation again , jointly with your said learned friend , over a poor meal or two , that we might have banded together some good Authors ...
... phrase , to mend my draught ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) , and to have begged your conversation again , jointly with your said learned friend , over a poor meal or two , that we might have banded together some good Authors ...
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... phrase , to mend my draught ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) , and to have begged your conversation again , jointly with your said learned friend , over a poor meal or two , that we might have banded together some good Authors ...
... phrase , to mend my draught ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) , and to have begged your conversation again , jointly with your said learned friend , over a poor meal or two , that we might have banded together some good Authors ...
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... phrase ; cf. Eloisa to Abelard , 297 , 298 : " O Grace serene ! O Virtue heavenly fair ! Divine oblivion of low - thoughted care ! " 7. i.e. penned up and shackled , like animals in a pound . pestered ... pinfold ; see each in the ...
... phrase ; cf. Eloisa to Abelard , 297 , 298 : " O Grace serene ! O Virtue heavenly fair ! Divine oblivion of low - thoughted care ! " 7. i.e. penned up and shackled , like animals in a pound . pestered ... pinfold ; see each in the ...
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Adonis Æneid allusion Ben Jonson blank verse called Cambridge character charmed chastity Circe classical Comus crown dance daughter Earl of Bridgewater Echo Elder Brother Elizabethan enchanted English epithet Estrildis evil eyes Faerie Queene fair favourite Germ Glossary goddess gods hath Heaven hence Henry Wotton Homer honour Il Penseroso influence Italy Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes's legend Locrine Lord Lord Brackley Ludlow Castle Lycidas lyric Masque Masson metaphor Midsummer-Night's Dream Milton nature night noun nymph Odyssey original Paradise Lost passage pastoral Penseroso perhaps phrase piece pleasure poem poet poetic poetry probably Puritanism reference rhyme rhythm river Sabrina Sabrina fair Samson Agonistes says scene sense Shakespeare Shepheards Calender shepherd Sir Henry song Sonnet soul speaks Spenser Spirit stage-direction story sweet syllable Tempest Tennyson thou Thyrsis trochee verb virgin Virtue wood word writers youth