Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureTo mark his seventieth birthday, Continuum published some of the critical writings of the man whom the London Times hailed as, "the preeminent English poet-critic of our time". |
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... called a moral virtue , savoured but little of that sub- lime , Christian - like disposition – that vast elevation of thought , in purity approaching to angelic perfection to be attained , expressed , and felt only by grace . Those ...
... called a moral virtue , savoured but little of that sub- lime , Christian - like disposition – that vast elevation of thought , in purity approaching to angelic perfection to be attained , expressed , and felt only by grace . Those ...
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... called Justice or called Humanity - perhaps a stately and bigbreasted lady in a Roman toga , such as we can in fact find sculpted on some of our public buildings , often enough with a helpful label carved beneath her – JUSTITIA or ...
... called Justice or called Humanity - perhaps a stately and bigbreasted lady in a Roman toga , such as we can in fact find sculpted on some of our public buildings , often enough with a helpful label carved beneath her – JUSTITIA or ...
Page 238
... called noble . He who had no statue or pic- tures but his own , was called a new man . Those who had none at all , were ignoble . Compare Johnson , The Vanity of Human Wishes , 11. 83-90 . From every room descends the painted face ...
... called noble . He who had no statue or pic- tures but his own , was called a new man . Those who had none at all , were ignoble . Compare Johnson , The Vanity of Human Wishes , 11. 83-90 . From every room descends the painted face ...
Contents
Contents 1 Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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