Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902 - American literature |
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Page 15
... seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance are ...
... seems to write like a young man . His metrical movement is steadier here than in the other poems . He uses almost invariably the short epic line into the usage of which English poetry had now drifted . Rhyme , also , and assonance are ...
Page 33
... seems to have been a very aristocratic monk , is clearly speaking all the time of well - to - do people , ignoring the great bulk of the population beneath them . But even if we stretch a point and make his ' rurales homines ' and ...
... seems to have been a very aristocratic monk , is clearly speaking all the time of well - to - do people , ignoring the great bulk of the population beneath them . But even if we stretch a point and make his ' rurales homines ' and ...
Page 44
... seems the more credible of the two . The story , whoever wrote it , is told not without some skill , though with its full share of the surplusage by which so many of the later romances are damaged . As a specimen of its style and metre ...
... seems the more credible of the two . The story , whoever wrote it , is told not without some skill , though with its full share of the surplusage by which so many of the later romances are damaged . As a specimen of its style and metre ...
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... seems to us enormous length . These Corpus Christi and Whitsuntide representations were thus restricted to no single subject , such as the Nativity or the Resurrection , but embraced ' matter from the beginning of the world ' to the Day ...
... seems to us enormous length . These Corpus Christi and Whitsuntide representations were thus restricted to no single subject , such as the Nativity or the Resurrection , but embraced ' matter from the beginning of the world ' to the Day ...
Page 56
... seems to have cut short his career , and he describes himself as living in London , and on London , earning money by sing- ing requiems for hire . ' Reason , ' one of the char- acters in the poem , has been asking him what he does for a ...
... seems to have cut short his career , and he describes himself as living in London , and on London , earning money by sing- ing requiems for hire . ' Reason , ' one of the char- acters in the poem , has been asking him what he does for a ...
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