The Quarterly Review, Volume 215John Murray, 1911 - English literature |
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Page 23
... style are partially due to the same cause , but are still more attributable to that psycho- logical evolution which is ever at work in the minds of men , the various phases of which we try to reproduce in that vague word - picture ...
... style are partially due to the same cause , but are still more attributable to that psycho- logical evolution which is ever at work in the minds of men , the various phases of which we try to reproduce in that vague word - picture ...
Page 24
... style and , to a certain extent , the spirit of the writers of the best age of Greek literature a thousand years before their time . The Greek of Simonides was not a dead language to the Byzantine writers of the first millennium of our ...
... style and , to a certain extent , the spirit of the writers of the best age of Greek literature a thousand years before their time . The Greek of Simonides was not a dead language to the Byzantine writers of the first millennium of our ...
Page 29
... style would not appeal to the modern world . Some of these versions were reproduced in a volume of the Canterbury Poets . Unfortunately this book is out of print , a misfortune peculiarly great because it contains a number of ...
... style would not appeal to the modern world . Some of these versions were reproduced in a volume of the Canterbury Poets . Unfortunately this book is out of print , a misfortune peculiarly great because it contains a number of ...
Page 71
... style that , when he labours to prove a point , he usually leaves the impression that the truth is against him . " His views on the subject of the elements of prosody are a curious mixture of pedantry and inconsequence ; as such , they ...
... style that , when he labours to prove a point , he usually leaves the impression that the truth is against him . " His views on the subject of the elements of prosody are a curious mixture of pedantry and inconsequence ; as such , they ...
Page 88
... charm ! Instead of an unconvincing blend of disparate metres , these poems exhibit , surely , a tripping , stumbling use of the native style , the virtues of which 6 flow in the blood of all good Englishmen , 888 ENGLISH PROSODY.
... charm ! Instead of an unconvincing blend of disparate metres , these poems exhibit , surely , a tripping , stumbling use of the native style , the virtues of which 6 flow in the blood of all good Englishmen , 888 ENGLISH PROSODY.
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