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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 Age of Tennyson - Page 207
by Hugh Walker - 1904 - 309 pages
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Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he...
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 402 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can he no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very dissimilar. But...
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Choice Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 400 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior; • Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very dissimilar. But...
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 ' Then began he...
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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,...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...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
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...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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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed Ithere can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...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
...supreme praise upon poetry of an order immeasurably inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apph 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 - 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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