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Beautifully and minutely descriptive as these lines certainly are , they are surpassed in poetical spirit by the following address to May , from the Knight's Tale . Than the three opening couplets , indeed , I know of no passage in any ...
Beautifully and minutely descriptive as these lines certainly are , they are surpassed in poetical spirit by the following address to May , from the Knight's Tale . Than the three opening couplets , indeed , I know of no passage in any ...
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The third couplet he has deviated from , and for the worse ; but the inimitable * Groves or bushes . + Royal . spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in MORNINGS IN SPRING . 15.
The third couplet he has deviated from , and for the worse ; but the inimitable * Groves or bushes . + Royal . spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in MORNINGS IN SPRING . 15.
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spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in his expansion of the elder poet's ad- dress to May , where he has converted the two lines of his original into a picture of the most exquisite grace and beauty .
spirit and freedom of Dryden's versification is nobly exemplified in his expansion of the elder poet's ad- dress to May , where he has converted the two lines of his original into a picture of the most exquisite grace and beauty .
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The wretch whose doom is , " hope nae mair , " What tongue his woes can tell : Within whase bosom , save despair , Nae kinder spirits dwell . The features attendant on this the most beauti- ful season of the year are yet further marked ...
The wretch whose doom is , " hope nae mair , " What tongue his woes can tell : Within whase bosom , save despair , Nae kinder spirits dwell . The features attendant on this the most beauti- ful season of the year are yet further marked ...
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Though alloyed , indeed , with many errors and frailties which cannot be too much re- gretted , there glowed in the bosom of the Scottish bard a spirit of the most generous and ardent phi- lanthropy , nor was ever man of genius ...
Though alloyed , indeed , with many errors and frailties which cannot be too much re- gretted , there glowed in the bosom of the Scottish bard a spirit of the most generous and ardent phi- lanthropy , nor was ever man of genius ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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