Johnson & Goldsmith & Their PoetryAMS Press, 1971 - 175 pages |
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Page 11
... verse ; there the famous blue- stocking , Anna Seward , held her little court . Such memories as these , it is true , will appeal only to a few students here and there . But Lichfield has yet another and far more sub- stantial claim to ...
... verse ; there the famous blue- stocking , Anna Seward , held her little court . Such memories as these , it is true , will appeal only to a few students here and there . But Lichfield has yet another and far more sub- stantial claim to ...
Page 89
... verse , which , oddly enough as it may seem to us , he denounced as pedantic and inharmonious , and the introduction ... verse rather in 1 Cp . the references to blank verse in the Dedication to " The Traveller , " for which see post , p ...
... verse , which , oddly enough as it may seem to us , he denounced as pedantic and inharmonious , and the introduction ... verse rather in 1 Cp . the references to blank verse in the Dedication to " The Traveller , " for which see post , p ...
Page 92
... verse on the characteristics of the different nations , so " The Deserted Village " -which is again expressly didactic , though far less consistently so - is an essay in verse upon an abuse which bulked very large in Goldsmith's mind ...
... verse on the characteristics of the different nations , so " The Deserted Village " -which is again expressly didactic , though far less consistently so - is an essay in verse upon an abuse which bulked very large in Goldsmith's mind ...
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