 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...or the inseparable manner of such an adequate poetic criticism ? I answer, ' It has not, and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose.' " It will be manifest, I think, to every reader of this chapter, that Mr. Arnold is here only repeating,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...not to be overcome . . .' or of ' O martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...not to be overcome . . .' or of. ' O martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...else not to be oyercome ..." or of " O martyr souded in virginitee !" I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry ; they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...not to be overcome . . ." or of " O martyr souded in virginitee !" I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry ; they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...not to 1>e overcome . . .' or of ' O martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | Religion - 1880 - 938 pages
...his general introduction to these volumes. There we read that the poetry of Dryden and Pope is that " of the builders of an age of prose and reason. Though...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose." This is surely a more just conclusion than that " Dryden is to be ranked with the grandest of English... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...not to be overcome . . •* or of 'O martyr souded in virgiuiteel' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...the art of versification, Dryden and Pope are not classies of our poetry, they are classies of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 626 pages
...not to be overcome . . .' or of ' O martyr souded in virginitee !' I answer : It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Gray is our poetical classic of that literature and age ; the position of Gray is singular, and demands... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...else not to be overcome. . . ." or of "O martyr souded in virginitee!" I answer: It has not and cannot have them ; it is the poetry of the builders of an...certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Drydeu and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose. Of other works on literary... | |
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Absent thee from felicity awhile ..." or of "And what is else not to be overcome ..." or of "O martyr souded in virginitee!" I answer: It has not and cannot have them; it is the poetry of the builders of an age of prose and reason. Though they may write... 
