Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... fall , And all my treasure , which should purchase thee , Sighs , tears , and oaths , and letters I have spent . Yet no more can be due to me , Than at the bargain made was meant , If then thy gift of love was partial , That some to me ...
... fall , And all my treasure , which should purchase thee , Sighs , tears , and oaths , and letters I have spent . Yet no more can be due to me , Than at the bargain made was meant , If then thy gift of love was partial , That some to me ...
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... fall " means both physical collapse and " fall " into sin . These ambiguities are characteristic of Herbert's use of the device . Neither is at all recondite : “ against " in the sense of " in preparation for ” often carried something ...
... fall " means both physical collapse and " fall " into sin . These ambiguities are characteristic of Herbert's use of the device . Neither is at all recondite : “ against " in the sense of " in preparation for ” often carried something ...
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... falling water : Hark , hark , the waters fall , fall , fall And with a murmuring sound Dash , dash upon the ground , To gentle slumbers call . Oldham in his Cecilia Ode of 1684 had employed some such scheme as Dryden was soon to make ...
... falling water : Hark , hark , the waters fall , fall , fall And with a murmuring sound Dash , dash upon the ground , To gentle slumbers call . Oldham in his Cecilia Ode of 1684 had employed some such scheme as Dryden was soon to make ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry 3 | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
HELEN GARDNER The Metaphysical Poets | 50 |
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