An Oxford Anthology of English ProseArnold Whitridge, John Wendell Dodds, Howard Foster Lowry Oxford University Press, 1935 - 950 pages |
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Page 397
... Poetry and Painting , and , accord- ingly , we call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They both speak by and to the same organs ...
... Poetry and Painting , and , accord- ingly , we call them Sisters : but where shall we find bonds of connection sufficiently strict to typify the affinity betwixt metrical and prose composition ? They both speak by and to the same organs ...
Page 415
... poetry . The writings of Plato , and Jeremy Taylor , and Burnet's Theory of the Earth , 19 furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the high- est kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem ...
... poetry . The writings of Plato , and Jeremy Taylor , and Burnet's Theory of the Earth , 19 furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the high- est kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem ...
Page 431
... POETS AND DRAMATISTS 1836 CHARACTERISTICS OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS POETRY in essence is as familiar to barba- rous as to civilized nations . The Lap lander and the savage Indian are cheered by it as well as the inhabitants of London and ...
... POETS AND DRAMATISTS 1836 CHARACTERISTICS OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS POETRY in essence is as familiar to barba- rous as to civilized nations . The Lap lander and the savage Indian are cheered by it as well as the inhabitants of London and ...
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Le Morte Darthur | 1 |
Roger Ascham 15151568 | 19 |
Sir Thomas North | 29 |
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