The English PoetsThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1901 |
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... genius , his fine taste and blameless character were not without their effect on the course of our poetry . He never , like Dryden , prostituted his Muse to utterly unworthy objects ; if his poetry is not free from ' courtly stains ...
... genius , his fine taste and blameless character were not without their effect on the course of our poetry . He never , like Dryden , prostituted his Muse to utterly unworthy objects ; if his poetry is not free from ' courtly stains ...
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... , to crouch , to wait , to ride , to run , To spend , to give , to want , to be undone , ' till he had lost any original capacity he may have had for becoming a poet . His genius , moreover , was D 2 JONATHAN SWIFT . 35.
... , to crouch , to wait , to ride , to run , To spend , to give , to want , to be undone , ' till he had lost any original capacity he may have had for becoming a poet . His genius , moreover , was D 2 JONATHAN SWIFT . 35.
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Thomas Humphry Ward. becoming a poet . His genius , moreover , was from the first as far removed from that peculiar to poetry as it is possible for any genius of the first rank to be . The power of Swift's prose was the terror of his own ...
Thomas Humphry Ward. becoming a poet . His genius , moreover , was from the first as far removed from that peculiar to poetry as it is possible for any genius of the first rank to be . The power of Swift's prose was the terror of his own ...
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... genius that makes music as it runs , invariably result in confusion worse confounded . Not least among our debts to Dryden may be ranked his fencing the ode from his cousin Swift . Of the pseudo - classic efforts of the latter , Cadenus ...
... genius that makes music as it runs , invariably result in confusion worse confounded . Not least among our debts to Dryden may be ranked his fencing the ode from his cousin Swift . Of the pseudo - classic efforts of the latter , Cadenus ...
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... genius for criticism to which philologians of all countries still pay admiring homage , was an Englishman , and a contemporary of Pope . Pope looked on Richard Bentley but knew him not . The lines ( included in our selection ) in which ...
... genius for criticism to which philologians of all countries still pay admiring homage , was an Englishman , and a contemporary of Pope . Pope looked on Richard Bentley but knew him not . The lines ( included in our selection ) in which ...
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