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... qualities in a fuller measure than his in many other ways more richly dowered contemporaries . They are not the purest , the highest gifts of the poet , but they are qualities which his poetry shares with that of some of our greatest ...
... qualities in a fuller measure than his in many other ways more richly dowered contemporaries . They are not the purest , the highest gifts of the poet , but they are qualities which his poetry shares with that of some of our greatest ...
Page 129
... qualities which troubled the balance and movement of Donne's packed but imaginative rhetoric . It was not indeed in lyrical verse that Dryden followed and developed Donne , but in his eulogistic , elegiac , satirical , and epistolary ...
... qualities which troubled the balance and movement of Donne's packed but imaginative rhetoric . It was not indeed in lyrical verse that Dryden followed and developed Donne , but in his eulogistic , elegiac , satirical , and epistolary ...
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... qualities of a classical literature . There is no greater romance in certain essential qualities of romance than the Odyssey ; and yet again Virgil in the fourth book of the Aeneid is more romantic in another way than Homer . Dido is ...
... qualities of a classical literature . There is no greater romance in certain essential qualities of romance than the Odyssey ; and yet again Virgil in the fourth book of the Aeneid is more romantic in another way than Homer . Dido is ...
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