Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 344
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To cir- cumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
... poet ? otherwise than by asking in return , If Pope be not a poet , where is poetry to be found ? To cir- cumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer , though a definition which shall exclude Pope will ...
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... poets fill quite so many volumes , if all their productions were to be tried , like this , by an elaborate essay on each particular species of poetry of which they exhibit specimens ? " If Young be not a Lyrick poet , he is at least a ...
... poets fill quite so many volumes , if all their productions were to be tried , like this , by an elaborate essay on each particular species of poetry of which they exhibit specimens ? " If Young be not a Lyrick poet , he is at least a ...
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... Poetry . Gray seems in his rapture to confound the images of spreading sound and running water . A stream of musick ... Poetry ; but I am afraid that the conclusion will not rise from the premises . The caverns of the North and the ...
... Poetry . Gray seems in his rapture to confound the images of spreading sound and running water . A stream of musick ... Poetry ; but I am afraid that the conclusion will not rise from the premises . The caverns of the North and the ...
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