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Page 7
But his excellence is in his language ; and few can think of the story , in the
incomparable sweetness and variegated beauty of his lines . To this hour
Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets
have drawn ...
But his excellence is in his language ; and few can think of the story , in the
incomparable sweetness and variegated beauty of his lines . To this hour
Spencer is a spring of English inexhaustible , from which all the leading poets
have drawn ...
Page 12
Keats died at an early age , probably long before his powers were matured ; but
not till he had given promise of excellence in his peculiar style . His versification
was chiefly formed on the model of rich and delicate conception of the beauty of ...
Keats died at an early age , probably long before his powers were matured ; but
not till he had given promise of excellence in his peculiar style . His versification
was chiefly formed on the model of rich and delicate conception of the beauty of ...
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But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by
touches of the finest feeling ; flashes of sunshine through the gloom ; vistas of the
rosiest beauty , through a mental wilderness that seemed to have been bared
and ...
But the error was often nobly redeemed by the outbreak of a noble mind , by
touches of the finest feeling ; flashes of sunshine through the gloom ; vistas of the
rosiest beauty , through a mental wilderness that seemed to have been bared
and ...
Page 49
... all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ;
and when thou ' rt old , and rich . Thou hast neither heat , affection , limb , nor
beauty , To make thy riches pleasant . What ' s yet SHAKESPEARE . Human Life.
... all thy blessed youth Becomes as aged , and doth beg the alms Of palsied eld ;
and when thou ' rt old , and rich . Thou hast neither heat , affection , limb , nor
beauty , To make thy riches pleasant . What ' s yet SHAKESPEARE . Human Life.
Page 69
Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees , Where perhaps
some beauty lies , The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes . Hard by a cottage
chimney smokes , From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met
, Are at ...
Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees , Where perhaps
some beauty lies , The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes . Hard by a cottage
chimney smokes , From betwixt two aged oaks , Where Corydon and Thyrsis met
, Are at ...
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| Title | The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations |
| Author | George Croly |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, 1857 |
| Length | 395 pages |
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