Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... verse , and with faultless perspicuity and finish , of the ordinary ideas in circulation at the time . But this studiously - controlled am- bition by no means precluded the production of very noble and dignified utterances , as the ...
... verse , and with faultless perspicuity and finish , of the ordinary ideas in circulation at the time . But this studiously - controlled am- bition by no means precluded the production of very noble and dignified utterances , as the ...
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... verse for the machine - made heroic couplet , to exercise them- selves tentatively in older and long - neglected stanzaic forms , to write Odes and Elegies and Sonnets , and above all to exhibit an enfranchised proclivity towards ...
... verse for the machine - made heroic couplet , to exercise them- selves tentatively in older and long - neglected stanzaic forms , to write Odes and Elegies and Sonnets , and above all to exhibit an enfranchised proclivity towards ...
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... verse : Awake , my soul , and with the sun , Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth , and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice . In 1674 Ken published a Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College ...
... verse : Awake , my soul , and with the sun , Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth , and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice . In 1674 Ken published a Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College ...
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... verses on subjects as unscriptural as a beldame song , a bawd who sat for her picture , skating ( Sliding on Skates in ... verse Eneid , his Ode for St Cecilia's Day , and his sermons have long since sunk into deserved oblivion . Thomas ...
... verses on subjects as unscriptural as a beldame song , a bawd who sat for her picture , skating ( Sliding on Skates in ... verse Eneid , his Ode for St Cecilia's Day , and his sermons have long since sunk into deserved oblivion . Thomas ...
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... verses , and a few songs . Windsor Castle , published posthu- mously , is a panegyric of Charles II . The Poet's ... verse could frame : Oft I in vain invoked my Clio's name . The more I strove , the more I failed , I chafed , I bit ...
... verses , and a few songs . Windsor Castle , published posthu- mously , is a panegyric of Charles II . The Poet's ... verse could frame : Oft I in vain invoked my Clio's name . The more I strove , the more I failed , I chafed , I bit ...
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