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Had he known the writer's real love of all natural beauty and of Eton chapel with the College buildings , the river and the meadows round , there would have been no lack of greeting . The other period which may need , not explanation ...
Had he known the writer's real love of all natural beauty and of Eton chapel with the College buildings , the river and the meadows round , there would have been no lack of greeting . The other period which may need , not explanation ...
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... find Dr Watts in it , and nursery rhymes and fairy tales , hints of Keats and Coleridge ; but , in spite of echoes and imperfections , the book has clearly a character of its own , and for some lovers a peculiar and lasting beauty .
... find Dr Watts in it , and nursery rhymes and fairy tales , hints of Keats and Coleridge ; but , in spite of echoes and imperfections , the book has clearly a character of its own , and for some lovers a peculiar and lasting beauty .
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The process has been a slow one , and as natural as the growth of a hawthorn ; but that it was not thwarted in the years between the first and second books is proved by the beauty of Children of Stare ' and other preludes to the finer ...
The process has been a slow one , and as natural as the growth of a hawthorn ; but that it was not thwarted in the years between the first and second books is proved by the beauty of Children of Stare ' and other preludes to the finer ...
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Of the beauty of this poetry it is impossible to speak . The description of true poetry is at best but a kind of foolish paraphraseman injury to the poet , a slight to the reader . It is needful but to quote a single stanza , one of a ...
Of the beauty of this poetry it is impossible to speak . The description of true poetry is at best but a kind of foolish paraphraseman injury to the poet , a slight to the reader . It is needful but to quote a single stanza , one of a ...
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Our time has seen no finer lyric achieved in the desire to create a joy for ever ; a lyric suggesting part of the secret of its beauty in the harmony of sound and hue . Simplicities flow from Mr de la Mare's muse , as surely as the most ...
Our time has seen no finer lyric achieved in the desire to create a joy for ever ; a lyric suggesting part of the secret of its beauty in the harmony of sound and hue . Simplicities flow from Mr de la Mare's muse , as surely as the most ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 238 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1922 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2017 |
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