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Page 126
... [ Thomson ] alone attain'd . " 5 The Monthly Review asserted in 1793 that , to be effective , descriptive poetry needed to be " written by a master hand , little inferior to Thomson himself , " and six years later mentioned certain ...
... [ Thomson ] alone attain'd . " 5 The Monthly Review asserted in 1793 that , to be effective , descriptive poetry needed to be " written by a master hand , little inferior to Thomson himself , " and six years later mentioned certain ...
Page 127
... Thomson's Seasons , " for " Thomson was his idol , and to his impassioned and glowing descrip- tions of Nature he ascribed , in no small degree , his love of the coun- try and his taste for elevating studies . " It is accordingly no ...
... Thomson's Seasons , " for " Thomson was his idol , and to his impassioned and glowing descrip- tions of Nature he ascribed , in no small degree , his love of the coun- try and his taste for elevating studies . " It is accordingly no ...
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... Thomson left nature inspiration left him , and in Liberty even the descriptions are tame . Of course the poems ... Thomson's mind may have been in them , but his heart was not ; and his mind , like that of many another bard , was by no ...
... Thomson left nature inspiration left him , and in Liberty even the descriptions are tame . Of course the poems ... Thomson's mind may have been in them , but his heart was not ; and his mind , like that of many another bard , was by no ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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