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Page 35
... scenes themselves , which provide only starting - points for meditation ( 85 ff . , 155 ff . ) . Typical is the way a scene is used to ' Entice the dewy- feathered Sleep ' ( 146 ) . There is a sense of marriage between man and his ...
... scenes themselves , which provide only starting - points for meditation ( 85 ff . , 155 ff . ) . Typical is the way a scene is used to ' Entice the dewy- feathered Sleep ' ( 146 ) . There is a sense of marriage between man and his ...
Page 80
... scene .... The tautology of ' pensive thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the ...
... scene .... The tautology of ' pensive thought ' here nicely catches the redundancy of thoughts continually circling about themselves . ' Recall the fancy'd scene ' suggests both the return to a mental picture oft enjoyed , and that the ...
Page 134
... scene , because every scene des- cribes development , whether the inception of a storm or the birth of a bird . The whole excited tone of the poem is a function of the energy it celebrates . But for Thomson energy must be ordered ; and ...
... scene , because every scene des- cribes development , whether the inception of a storm or the birth of a bird . The whole excited tone of the poem is a function of the energy it celebrates . But for Thomson energy must be ordered ; and ...
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