Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 118
... delight in musick ; but he seems to think that chearful notes would have ob- tained from Pluto a compleat dismission of Eurydice , of whom solemn sounds only procured a conditional release . For the old age of Chearfulness he makes no ...
... delight in musick ; but he seems to think that chearful notes would have ob- tained from Pluto a compleat dismission of Eurydice , of whom solemn sounds only procured a conditional release . For the old age of Chearfulness he makes no ...
Page 127
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
... delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and delighted to form new modes of ...
Page 147
... delight fancy without violence to reason . Perhaps the Dialogue of this poem is not perfect . Some power of engaging the attention might have been added to it , by quicker reciprocation , by season- 1 able interruptions , by sudden ...
... delight fancy without violence to reason . Perhaps the Dialogue of this poem is not perfect . Some power of engaging the attention might have been added to it , by quicker reciprocation , by season- 1 able interruptions , by sudden ...
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