Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... expression of something which has universal significance . Their purpose in his poetry is to give illustrative force to the expression of universal truths . It is worth remarking that a comparison of earlier and later versions of a poem ...
... expression of something which has universal significance . Their purpose in his poetry is to give illustrative force to the expression of universal truths . It is worth remarking that a comparison of earlier and later versions of a poem ...
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... expression which former writers had used in similar circumstances . Regret at the too quick passing of years seems to have recalled to Pope Milton's sonnet on his twenty - third birthday as being , perhaps , the best expression which ...
... expression which former writers had used in similar circumstances . Regret at the too quick passing of years seems to have recalled to Pope Milton's sonnet on his twenty - third birthday as being , perhaps , the best expression which ...
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... expression , to adapt a phrase of Wordsworth's , on the countenance of knowledge . Arnold's generalizations are not pattern , expression : they are the specu- lations of a mind interested in ideas independently of the material that ...
... expression , to adapt a phrase of Wordsworth's , on the countenance of knowledge . Arnold's generalizations are not pattern , expression : they are the specu- lations of a mind interested in ideas independently of the material that ...
Contents
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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