English Lyrics Chaucer to Poe 1340-1809 |
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... Verses underneath the Bough , A Jug of Wine , a Loaf of Bread , and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- O , Wilderness were Paradise enow . Omar Khayyàm . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LONDON : METHUEN AND CO . J. B. ...
... Verses underneath the Bough , A Jug of Wine , a Loaf of Bread , and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- O , Wilderness were Paradise enow . Omar Khayyàm . LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LONDON : METHUEN AND CO . J. B. ...
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... verse in English is , ipso facto , English verse , and realising that the English Lyric has lived in Scotland when it was moribund , or worse , in England , I have included , with the work of the aforesaid American , examples of certain ...
... verse in English is , ipso facto , English verse , and realising that the English Lyric has lived in Scotland when it was moribund , or worse , in England , I have included , with the work of the aforesaid American , examples of certain ...
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... verse , whatever its appearance on the printed page , can ever be held a lyric . I mean the quality of emotion : or , as Mr. Palgrave ' calls it , ' feeling . ' It is the absence of this quality , or its presence in the smallest doses ...
... verse , whatever its appearance on the printed page , can ever be held a lyric . I mean the quality of emotion : or , as Mr. Palgrave ' calls it , ' feeling . ' It is the absence of this quality , or its presence in the smallest doses ...
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... verse that is lyrical to ear and heart as distinguished from verse that is lyrical to the eye alone , is temperamental in origin and emotional in effect . If a poet have the Lyrical Tempera- ment , his effect will be lyrical whenever ...
... verse that is lyrical to ear and heart as distinguished from verse that is lyrical to the eye alone , is temperamental in origin and emotional in effect . If a poet have the Lyrical Tempera- ment , his effect will be lyrical whenever ...
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... we may take for granted that John- son's capacity for feeling was certainly as great as , if not greater than , Milton's . Yet Johnson's essays in lyrical verse are frigid trifles , ' while Milton's Invocations to Sabrina ( 240 X PREFACE.
... we may take for granted that John- son's capacity for feeling was certainly as great as , if not greater than , Milton's . Yet Johnson's essays in lyrical verse are frigid trifles , ' while Milton's Invocations to Sabrina ( 240 X PREFACE.
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English Lyrics: Chaucer to Poe; 1340 1809 (Classic Reprint) William Ernest Henley No preview available - 2018 |
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