Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... couplet . That small subtlety is insinuated at a point where his poem is demanding as blank a prose as he could write . It demands blank prose because at this point it demands fact . ( The closing paragraphs of Newman's Apologia are of ...
... couplet . That small subtlety is insinuated at a point where his poem is demanding as blank a prose as he could write . It demands blank prose because at this point it demands fact . ( The closing paragraphs of Newman's Apologia are of ...
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... couplet . It is worth remarking , that the English poet of the eighteenth century whose compositions wear best and give one the most entire satisfac- tion , -Gray , hardly uses that couplet at all : this abstinence , how- ever , limits ...
... couplet . It is worth remarking , that the English poet of the eighteenth century whose compositions wear best and give one the most entire satisfac- tion , -Gray , hardly uses that couplet at all : this abstinence , how- ever , limits ...
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... couplet . If the heroic couplet is what Arnold thought it , a mechanical means of achieving the prose virtues of ' regularity , uniformity , precision and balance ' , Pope , blessed with a darting spirit , would not have used it ...
... couplet . If the heroic couplet is what Arnold thought it , a mechanical means of achieving the prose virtues of ' regularity , uniformity , precision and balance ' , Pope , blessed with a darting spirit , would not have used it ...
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THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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