The Minor Poems in EnglishMacmillan, 1972 - 362 pages |
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Page 56
... writing that this is so . In Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis , where the grief plainly predominates over the egotistical ... writers is not that they are over - ambitious but that they are too easily satisfied with perishable rewards . The 1 In ...
... writing that this is so . In Matthew Arnold's Thyrsis , where the grief plainly predominates over the egotistical ... writers is not that they are over - ambitious but that they are too easily satisfied with perishable rewards . The 1 In ...
Page 58
... writing : Those lámping eyes will sómetimes déigne to lóok . But , so altered , the line has lost all its distinctive Spenserian music . In On the Death of a Fair Infant Milton caught this music in the line : Soft silken primrose fading ...
... writing : Those lámping eyes will sómetimes déigne to lóok . But , so altered , the line has lost all its distinctive Spenserian music . In On the Death of a Fair Infant Milton caught this music in the line : Soft silken primrose fading ...
Page 91
... writing before dawn in London , with ' the star - led wizards ' on their way to Bethlehem . The first eight stanzas of the hymn give the cosmic and historical setting : nature , conscious of her imperfections , awaits the advent of her ...
... writing before dawn in London , with ' the star - led wizards ' on their way to Bethlehem . The first eight stanzas of the hymn give the cosmic and historical setting : nature , conscious of her imperfections , awaits the advent of her ...
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