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Page 33
... Song of Songs , marked and patterned as it is , lacks a certain quality which the follow- ing passage possesses : If aught of oaten stop , or pastoral song May hope , chaste eve , to soothe thy modest ear , Like thy own solemn springs ...
... Song of Songs , marked and patterned as it is , lacks a certain quality which the follow- ing passage possesses : If aught of oaten stop , or pastoral song May hope , chaste eve , to soothe thy modest ear , Like thy own solemn springs ...
Page 170
... songs grate from a rough throat ; Desde- mona's " willow song " intensifies the pathos of her posi- tion and foreshadows the terrible scene that is to come . For the reader the effect of spectacle and song are diminished , since he has ...
... songs grate from a rough throat ; Desde- mona's " willow song " intensifies the pathos of her posi- tion and foreshadows the terrible scene that is to come . For the reader the effect of spectacle and song are diminished , since he has ...
Page 256
... songs of love and joy . As early as 1250 there must have been a well - developed literature of song . The famous Cuckoo Song , " Summer is icumen in , " still exists in its musical manuscript . Many another song in praise of spring and ...
... songs of love and joy . As early as 1250 there must have been a well - developed literature of song . The famous Cuckoo Song , " Summer is icumen in , " still exists in its musical manuscript . Many another song in praise of spring and ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |