Lives of the English Sacred Poets, Volumen 2Parker, 1839 - 376 páginas |
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... poet's prede- cessors . The characteristic qualities of the sacred poetry of the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries , were , fervour of sentiment , and melody of language ; the fervour often degenerating into fantastic enthusiasm ...
... poet's prede- cessors . The characteristic qualities of the sacred poetry of the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries , were , fervour of sentiment , and melody of language ; the fervour often degenerating into fantastic enthusiasm ...
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... poetry has declined in strength , while it has in- creased in flexibility . But the calm diffusion of light is more agreeable than the uncertain blazes of a livelier invention ; and we can read a Grahame with satisfaction which the sub ...
... poetry has declined in strength , while it has in- creased in flexibility . But the calm diffusion of light is more agreeable than the uncertain blazes of a livelier invention ; and we can read a Grahame with satisfaction which the sub ...
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... poet . Of the remaining lives it is unnecessary to speak ; but I may be allowed to refer to the account of Young ... Poetry , to which allusion has been made in the following pages . KENSINGTON , October 9th , 1838 .. CONTENTS . PAGE ...
... poet . Of the remaining lives it is unnecessary to speak ; but I may be allowed to refer to the account of Young ... Poetry , to which allusion has been made in the following pages . KENSINGTON , October 9th , 1838 .. CONTENTS . PAGE ...
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Robert Aris Willmott. LIVES OF SACRED POETS . JOHN MILTON . Ir is not only in the character of our sublimest poet , that the history of Milton attracts and demands our attention ; while sorrowing over the darker pages of his life , we ...
Robert Aris Willmott. LIVES OF SACRED POETS . JOHN MILTON . Ir is not only in the character of our sublimest poet , that the history of Milton attracts and demands our attention ; while sorrowing over the darker pages of his life , we ...
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... limitations . That he read them with any view to verbal or minute criticism , we are not to imagine ; but as his principal object was doubtless to imbue his mind with the poetry and eloquence of ancient literature , we can 8 JOHN MILTON .
... limitations . That he read them with any view to verbal or minute criticism , we are not to imagine ; but as his principal object was doubtless to imbue his mind with the poetry and eloquence of ancient literature , we can 8 JOHN MILTON .
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