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" Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone... "
The Journal of Education - Page 25
1909
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Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he to call many things to remembrance,— all the lands which his valour conquered, and...
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The English Poets: Selections

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 pages
...poetry of an order immeasurably inferior.^ v D Indeed there can Ke no more useful help for discoverlng what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he to call many things to remembrance, — all the lands which his valour conquered,...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 ' Then began he to call many things to remembrance, — all the lands which his valour conquered,...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's rnind lines and expressions of the great masters, arid to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry....
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Essays in Criticism: Second Series

Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 pages
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...good, than to have always in one's mind lines and and the men of his lineage, and Charlemagne his liege lord who nourished him." — Chanson de Roland,...
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Transcripts and Studies

Edward Dowden - 1888 - 548 pages
...great masters, which may serve, he says, as a touchstone to othe£ jjoetry. " Of course," he adds, " we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may bo very dissimilar. But if we have any tact, we shall find them, when we have lodged them well in our...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 632 pages
...upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovenng what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to appK them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed Ithere can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to appl) them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apph them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we...this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he to call many things to remembrance, — all the lands which his valour conquered,...
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Essays in Criticism: Second Series

Matthew Arnold - 1892 - 272 pages
...poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. x ^Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent,...to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of~the great masters, aricT to apply them as a toucEstone to other poetry. Of course we are not 'this...
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