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Pagina 88
Similarly with his dislike of religious poetry . It jarred his sincerity . Religion was too solemn a subject for literary frills , and clevernesses , and affectations . The addresses of poets to the Deity seemed to him , one suspects ...
Similarly with his dislike of religious poetry . It jarred his sincerity . Religion was too solemn a subject for literary frills , and clevernesses , and affectations . The addresses of poets to the Deity seemed to him , one suspects ...
Pagina 124
Again , when it comes to a generalized dictum like the ban on numbering the streaks of the tulip , though it is certainly common enough for poetry to overdo minute details ( like many a tedious novel ) , still legions of poets rise up ...
Again , when it comes to a generalized dictum like the ban on numbering the streaks of the tulip , though it is certainly common enough for poetry to overdo minute details ( like many a tedious novel ) , still legions of poets rise up ...
Pagina 343
The poetry of the eighteenth century , except where it is gay or sardonic , is often pompously and prosaically dull . Machiavelli and Chesterfield do seem often cold as serpents . Amiel and Clough were paralysed by excessive scruples ...
The poetry of the eighteenth century , except where it is gay or sardonic , is often pompously and prosaically dull . Machiavelli and Chesterfield do seem often cold as serpents . Amiel and Clough were paralysed by excessive scruples ...
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