The Castle of Indolence, and Other PoemsUniversity of Kansas Press, 1961 - 222 pages |
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... quoted , or in William Thompson's lines : Father of fancy , of descriptive verse , And shadowy beings , gentle Edmund hight 12 Shenstone's supposed change from mere burlesque of Spenser to sympa- thetic and delicate imitation is studied ...
... quoted , or in William Thompson's lines : Father of fancy , of descriptive verse , And shadowy beings , gentle Edmund hight 12 Shenstone's supposed change from mere burlesque of Spenser to sympa- thetic and delicate imitation is studied ...
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... quoted the first fifteen lines of Britannia , and also later passages , 23-61 and 166-90 , with the remark , " The Gentleman who wrote this Poem is still living ; and if his future Works have but the same Spirit , with those he has ...
... quoted the first fifteen lines of Britannia , and also later passages , 23-61 and 166-90 , with the remark , " The Gentleman who wrote this Poem is still living ; and if his future Works have but the same Spirit , with those he has ...
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... quoted as " And let it down again into the soul , " and erroneously said to be the con- cluding line of the stanza , Henry Mackenzie writes in Anec- dotes and Egotisms 1745-1831 , ed . H. W. Thompson ( 1927 ) , pp . 39-40 : " The ...
... quoted as " And let it down again into the soul , " and erroneously said to be the con- cluding line of the stanza , Henry Mackenzie writes in Anec- dotes and Egotisms 1745-1831 , ed . H. W. Thompson ( 1927 ) , pp . 39-40 : " The ...
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allegorical Archimage Armstrong Arts and Industry Bard Beauty Bliss Bower Brentford Britannia British Canto Castle of Indolence deep delights Descartes dream Dunciad Earth effect eighteenth century elaborate enchanter English Harp Heart Heaven Hill Hughes Hypochondria Idless imitation inspired Introduction Isle James Thomson John John Conduitt John Hughes Knight of Arts landscape Landskips Liberty light lines Lucretius Luxborough Luxury Lycidas Lyttelton Mallet Milton Mind moral Murdoch Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's Newtonian nought Numbers o'er panegyric passage Peace philosophic Pleasure poet Poetry pour'd Power praise quoted reference retirement round rural Scene Seasons second edition Shade Shenstone shine Sir Isaac Newton Sleep soft Solitude song Soul sound Spenser Spenserian Spenserian stanzas Spirit stanza Streams sweet thee theme Thom Thomson's poem thou thro Title-page Toil Vale verse Virtue vision ween wild Wind words World Wretch xlviii