Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 75
... poet " astonished even beyond expression . " Gray , traveling in Horace Walpole's company writes : " In our little ... poet fastens on is man's victory over nature - but here indeed , the philosopher gets somewhat the better of the poet ...
... poet " astonished even beyond expression . " Gray , traveling in Horace Walpole's company writes : " In our little ... poet fastens on is man's victory over nature - but here indeed , the philosopher gets somewhat the better of the poet ...
Page 130
... poet - though a poet of an age which renounced all in poetry that was lyrical . Nevertheless it is a poet , a philosophic poet , who sets out the function of poetry in general culture : Those who behold the phenomena of nature , and ...
... poet - though a poet of an age which renounced all in poetry that was lyrical . Nevertheless it is a poet , a philosophic poet , who sets out the function of poetry in general culture : Those who behold the phenomena of nature , and ...
Page 254
... poet's gentlest humor : not laughter , but a tender memory of laughter . Let us agree with Professor Housman that we only get what he means by poetry unalloyed from those eighteenth- century writers in whom a touch of the moon's ...
... poet's gentlest humor : not laughter , but a tender memory of laughter . Let us agree with Professor Housman that we only get what he means by poetry unalloyed from those eighteenth- century writers in whom a touch of the moon's ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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