Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 450
... language of the Gods " -notwithstanding he administered consolation to his own grief in this immortal language — Mrs . Boscawen was comforted in rhyme . While the poet and the christian were applying this comfort , Young had himself ...
... language of the Gods " -notwithstanding he administered consolation to his own grief in this immortal language — Mrs . Boscawen was comforted in rhyme . While the poet and the christian were applying this comfort , Young had himself ...
Page 480
... language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjec- tives , derived from substantives , the termination of participles ; such as the ...
... language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant , and the thoughts have nothing new . There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjec- tives , derived from substantives , the termination of participles ; such as the ...
Page 481
... language more poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales ...
... language more poetical as it was more remote from common use : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring , an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond apprehension , by making gales ...
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