The Makers of Modern English: A Popular Handbook to the Greater Poets of the CenturyThomas Whittaker, 1895 - 375 pages |
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Page 18
... calm heights of observation , but from actual experience . Above all , he did what neither Crabbe nor Cowper could accomplish - he sang of love . He sang of it with a full , passionate utterance , a grace and a fire unknown in English ...
... calm heights of observation , but from actual experience . Above all , he did what neither Crabbe nor Cowper could accomplish - he sang of love . He sang of it with a full , passionate utterance , a grace and a fire unknown in English ...
Page 36
... Coleridge watched the transformation in silent dismay ; Southey took refuge in violent Toryism ; Wordsworth retreated to the cloistered calm of Nature . Byron and Shelley alone remained , and still cham- pioned SHELLEY.
... Coleridge watched the transformation in silent dismay ; Southey took refuge in violent Toryism ; Wordsworth retreated to the cloistered calm of Nature . Byron and Shelley alone remained , and still cham- pioned SHELLEY.
Page 61
... calm retreats of Grasmere , Scott was girding himself for his work . Scott was the lifelong friend of Wordsworth , and there was much in their natures that was akin . We have seen how the great force of the French Revolu- tion acted on ...
... calm retreats of Grasmere , Scott was girding himself for his work . Scott was the lifelong friend of Wordsworth , and there was much in their natures that was akin . We have seen how the great force of the French Revolu- tion acted on ...
Page 86
... calm . He took up poetry in a thoroughly business - like way , and applied himself to it as he would to the writing of a review article , and with much the same results . He writes , for instance , to one of his friends : " Last night I ...
... calm . He took up poetry in a thoroughly business - like way , and applied himself to it as he would to the writing of a review article , and with much the same results . He writes , for instance , to one of his friends : " Last night I ...
Page 100
... calm ; Hath dealt with me as with a turbulent stream , Some nursling of the mountains , which she leads Through quiet meadows , after he has learnt His strength , and had his triumph and his joy , His desperate course of tumult and of ...
... calm ; Hath dealt with me as with a turbulent stream , Some nursling of the mountains , which she leads Through quiet meadows , after he has learnt His strength , and had his triumph and his joy , His desperate course of tumult and of ...
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