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Page xvii
... force is reason . Fourteen years later , Pope published the fourth book of The Dunciad , his satiric masterpiece . Here are its concluding lines : Lo ! thy dread empire , Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy ...
... force is reason . Fourteen years later , Pope published the fourth book of The Dunciad , his satiric masterpiece . Here are its concluding lines : Lo ! thy dread empire , Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy ...
Page xl
... force a given word had for poets and readers of a past generation . Certain facts , however , emerge even from a distance of two cen- turies . Milton describes Satan as steering his flight " Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air ...
... force a given word had for poets and readers of a past generation . Certain facts , however , emerge even from a distance of two cen- turies . Milton describes Satan as steering his flight " Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air ...
Page xli
... forces the plowshare into the earth by the weight of his body . There is a faint paradox here , for Latin - educated ... force in the eighteenth century than it does in the twentieth ; when ordinary English words were available ( hidden ...
... forces the plowshare into the earth by the weight of his body . There is a faint paradox here , for Latin - educated ... force in the eighteenth century than it does in the twentieth ; when ordinary English words were available ( hidden ...
Contents
Introduction | xvii |
Matthew Prior | xxiv |
To the Honorable Charles Montague Esq | 2 |
Copyright | |
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ADORATION auld auld lang syne bard beauty beneath bless breast breath charms Christopher Smart clouds Cowper death delight Dunciad e'er earth eighteenth-century ev'n ev'ry fair fame fancy fate fear fire flame flowers frae golden reign grace hand hear heart heav'n honor hour human J. V. Cunningham John John Gay Jonathan Swift king lasses light Lord lyre maid Matthew Prior mind morn Muse nature Nature's ne'er never night numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace periphrasis Philip Larkin plain play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry pow'r praise pride rise round scene scorn sense shade shine sighs sing skelpin sleep smile soft song soul sound spirit Spring strain stream swain sweet Swift thee thou thought toil trembling Twas vale verse virtue voice walk wild William Cowper wind wing woods youth