Tennyson's The PrincessGinn, 1897 - 187 pages |
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Page xi
... true character of the third quest , the quest of imperfection , may not be misapprehended , we must remind our- selves that , in poetry , what we have here named the quest of im- perfection might as properly be called the endeavor to ...
... true character of the third quest , the quest of imperfection , may not be misapprehended , we must remind our- selves that , in poetry , what we have here named the quest of im- perfection might as properly be called the endeavor to ...
Page xii
... true poets , to a plane where we can perceive the element of rightness , be it greater or smaller , which the criticism embodies . Professor Shairp says : " A dressy literature , an exaggerated literature , seem to be fated to us ...
... true poets , to a plane where we can perceive the element of rightness , be it greater or smaller , which the criticism embodies . Professor Shairp says : " A dressy literature , an exaggerated literature , seem to be fated to us ...
Page xiv
... true , it only remains that we shall take the trouble to see what then we cannot help but admire and love . To this end , with some reference also to that loftier , more ultimate , because more comprehensive search for imperfection ...
... true , it only remains that we shall take the trouble to see what then we cannot help but admire and love . To this end , with some reference also to that loftier , more ultimate , because more comprehensive search for imperfection ...
Page xvii
... true it is well told . His Ida is , in truth , a beautiful and heroic figure : She bowed as if to veil a noble tear . Not peace she looked , the Head ; but rising up Robed in the long night of her deep hair , so To the open window moved ...
... true it is well told . His Ida is , in truth , a beautiful and heroic figure : She bowed as if to veil a noble tear . Not peace she looked , the Head ; but rising up Robed in the long night of her deep hair , so To the open window moved ...
Page xxii
... true to Nature . They were true to Art In the school of which we may take Virgil and Tennyson to be the most conspicuous representatives , a school which seldom fails to make its appearance in every literature at a certain point of its ...
... true to Nature . They were true to Art In the school of which we may take Virgil and Tennyson to be the most conspicuous representatives , a school which seldom fails to make its appearance in every literature at a certain point of its ...
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