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Page 110
... plain ; and by each one there sat fifty men in the light of the blazing fire . And the horses , munching white barley and rye , and standing by the chariots , waited for the bright - throned Morning . ' 1 1 In Pope's translation , this ...
... plain ; and by each one there sat fifty men in the light of the blazing fire . And the horses , munching white barley and rye , and standing by the chariots , waited for the bright - throned Morning . ' 1 1 In Pope's translation , this ...
Page 157
... plain style and words with a thought not plain in quality ; but take stronger instances of this union , — let the thought be not only not plain in quality , but highly fanciful : and you have the Elizabethan conceits ; you have , in ...
... plain style and words with a thought not plain in quality ; but take stronger instances of this union , — let the thought be not only not plain in quality , but highly fanciful : and you have the Elizabethan conceits ; you have , in ...
Page 205
... plain , the most un- Homeric , which can possibly be conceived . Homer presents his thought to you just as it wells from the source of his mind : Mr. Tennyson carefully distils his thought before he will part with it . Hence comes , in ...
... plain , the most un- Homeric , which can possibly be conceived . Homer presents his thought to you just as it wells from the source of his mind : Mr. Tennyson carefully distils his thought before he will part with it . Hence comes , in ...
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Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
Preface to Merope | 38 |
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