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... better verse and better poetry than anything that is to be found in Collins outside his two master - poems - outside the Ode to Evening and ' How sleep the Brave . . . ' . On the other hand , until he had read Collins , Gray wrote ...
... better verse and better poetry than anything that is to be found in Collins outside his two master - poems - outside the Ode to Evening and ' How sleep the Brave . . . ' . On the other hand , until he had read Collins , Gray wrote ...
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... better conceived ; and he has thought his way through it better . It has a developing conception ; it moves to a plan ; with each stanza there is advance ; and the poem ends where it must . The conception of Collins is straggling ; he ...
... better conceived ; and he has thought his way through it better . It has a developing conception ; it moves to a plan ; with each stanza there is advance ; and the poem ends where it must . The conception of Collins is straggling ; he ...
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... better than others , but all periods better than the average well - educated man . His opening survey of the course of English history up to the Restoration could hardly be improved upon as an outline of governing tendencies and factors ...
... better than others , but all periods better than the average well - educated man . His opening survey of the course of English history up to the Restoration could hardly be improved upon as an outline of governing tendencies and factors ...
Contents
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 19278 | 3 |
THE POETRY OF COLLINS Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 29 |
THE DATE OF THE HITTITE HIEROGLYPHIC INSCRIPTIONS | 39 |
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