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... diction , and , even yet more , by their movement . And though we distinguish between the two characters , the two accents , of superiority , yet they are nevertheless vitally connected one with the other . The superior character of ...
... diction , and , even yet more , by their movement . And though we distinguish between the two characters , the two accents , of superiority , yet they are nevertheless vitally connected one with the other . The superior character of ...
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... diction , his divine fluidity of move- mont , it is difficult to speak temperately . They aro nresistible , and justify all the rapture with which his successors speak of his ' gold dew - drops of pooch . Johnson misses the point ...
... diction , his divine fluidity of move- mont , it is difficult to speak temperately . They aro nresistible , and justify all the rapture with which his successors speak of his ' gold dew - drops of pooch . Johnson misses the point ...
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... diction , the lovely charm of his movement , he makes an epoch and founds a tradition . In Spenser , Shake- speare , Milton , Keats , we can follow the tradi- tion of the liquid diction , the fluid movement , of Chaucer ; at one time it ...
... diction , the lovely charm of his movement , he makes an epoch and founds a tradition . In Spenser , Shake- speare , Milton , Keats , we can follow the tradi- tion of the liquid diction , the fluid movement , of Chaucer ; at one time it ...
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... men the best lesson , the most salutary influence . In the sure and flawless perfection of his rhythm and diction he is as admirable as Virgil or Dante , and in this respect he is unique amongst us . No one else in II 61 MILTON.
... men the best lesson , the most salutary influence . In the sure and flawless perfection of his rhythm and diction he is as admirable as Virgil or Dante , and in this respect he is unique amongst us . No one else in II 61 MILTON.
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... diction in which Shakespeare has in that scene clothed them . Mil- ton , from one end of Paradise Lost to the other , is in his diction and rhythm constantly a great artist in the great style . Whatever may be said as to the subject of ...
... diction in which Shakespeare has in that scene clothed them . Mil- ton , from one end of Paradise Lost to the other , is in his diction and rhythm constantly a great artist in the great style . Whatever may be said as to the subject of ...
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Side 43 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Side 23 - To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Side 25 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Side 288 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly ; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Side 14 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Side 9 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Side 1 - The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.
Side 176 - He heard it, but he heeded not ; his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away ; He recked not of the life he lost, nor prize ; But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Side 9 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf 'ning clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?
Side 97 - Or may I woo thee In earlier Sicilian ? or thy smiles Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles, By bards who died content on pleasant sward, Leaving great verse unto a little clan ? O, give me their old vigour, and unheard Save of the quiet Primrose, and the span Of heaven and few ears, Rounded by thee, my song should die away Content as theirs, Rich in the simple worship of a day.