A Free Lance in the Field of Life and LettersA. Mason, 1874 - 340 pages |
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... poet's - purpose . But it might easily surprise a reader of her books that had never before directed his at- tention to the point , to observe how large a proportion of the space occupied with the liveliest conversation , or with the ...
... poet's - purpose . But it might easily surprise a reader of her books that had never before directed his at- tention to the point , to observe how large a proportion of the space occupied with the liveliest conversation , or with the ...
Page 52
... poet's development . Feminine , we say ; and we do not mean effeminate . The earliest poem , in the first collection , is no more effeminate than the latest , in the last . The quality of the strength exhib- ited does not seem to be ...
... poet's development . Feminine , we say ; and we do not mean effeminate . The earliest poem , in the first collection , is no more effeminate than the latest , in the last . The quality of the strength exhib- ited does not seem to be ...
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... poet , are vari- ous exquisitely modulated echoes of Tennyson , especi- ally in the Englishman's earlier and more purely ... poet's own heart . It is the delicious poem , entitled " My Love . " The woman of this piece is so charmingly ...
... poet , are vari- ous exquisitely modulated echoes of Tennyson , especi- ally in the Englishman's earlier and more purely ... poet's own heart . It is the delicious poem , entitled " My Love . " The woman of this piece is so charmingly ...
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... poet's heart , yet more ideal than his fancy , imparted to the idyll of Lowell . No wonder that a moral constitution ... poets , not pagan by birth , however pagan by sympathy , require us to forget in their character before we can ...
... poet's heart , yet more ideal than his fancy , imparted to the idyll of Lowell . No wonder that a moral constitution ... poets , not pagan by birth , however pagan by sympathy , require us to forget in their character before we can ...
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... poet's Pegasus into two separate flights , more effectually than any device of typography could do . The poem is what it is in plot . The reader is as helpless about it as probably Mr. Lowell was when he wrote it . It is to be ...
... poet's Pegasus into two separate flights , more effectually than any device of typography could do . The poem is what it is in plot . The reader is as helpless about it as probably Mr. Lowell was when he wrote it . It is to be ...
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