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Page xxvi
... lines ; Smart's verse is structured in more leisurely units , and its repetitive organization stresses the singleness of what he is saying . Adjectives are more con- spicuously important in Prior's lines than in Smart's ; the later poet ...
... lines ; Smart's verse is structured in more leisurely units , and its repetitive organization stresses the singleness of what he is saying . Adjectives are more con- spicuously important in Prior's lines than in Smart's ; the later poet ...
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... lines to be filled out with random adjectives , adjectives were felt to be of vast importance by their more meticulous contemporaries in their constant struggle to define precisely - to define as a mode of evaluating the world they ...
... lines to be filled out with random adjectives , adjectives were felt to be of vast importance by their more meticulous contemporaries in their constant struggle to define precisely - to define as a mode of evaluating the world they ...
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... lines 70-86 , was missing in the manuscript . ] VI [ Lines 87-94 were missing in the manuscript . ] What though far off , from some dark dell espied , His glimm'ring mazes cheer th ' excursive sight , Yet turn , ye wand'rers , turn your ...
... lines 70-86 , was missing in the manuscript . ] VI [ Lines 87-94 were missing in the manuscript . ] What though far off , from some dark dell espied , His glimm'ring mazes cheer th ' excursive sight , Yet turn , ye wand'rers , turn your ...
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