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Page 95
... called an elegy . One of the poems is Anna Se- ward's " Grenville and Julia , " which is a melancholy enough tale , being a paraphrase of Vincent Bourne's Latin version of Mallet's " William and Margaret " ; but it is not elegiac in the ...
... called an elegy . One of the poems is Anna Se- ward's " Grenville and Julia , " which is a melancholy enough tale , being a paraphrase of Vincent Bourne's Latin version of Mallet's " William and Margaret " ; but it is not elegiac in the ...
Page 139
... called an imi- tation of Young ; 24 but the motto is from Hervey , the meter is heroic couplet , and the sentiments are perhaps even closer to Hervey and Blair than to those of the poem from which the title is borrowed . The poet seems ...
... called an imi- tation of Young ; 24 but the motto is from Hervey , the meter is heroic couplet , and the sentiments are perhaps even closer to Hervey and Blair than to those of the poem from which the title is borrowed . The poet seems ...
Page 189
... called " pastoral elegies " or " elegiac pas- torals , " as well as the pure pastorals , are usually written in the third person , and are in various meters and on mis- cellaneous subjects . Naturally many are concerned with unhappy ...
... called " pastoral elegies " or " elegiac pas- torals , " as well as the pure pastorals , are usually written in the third person , and are in various meters and on mis- cellaneous subjects . Naturally many are concerned with unhappy ...
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COMPOUNDED OF MANY SIMPLES | 1 |
INVOCATION TO MELANCHOLY | 39 |
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI | 91 |
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