The Loly Grail: With introd. and notes by G[eorge] C[ampbell] MacaulayMacmillan, 1893 - 86 pages |
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... sound of a sweet voice singing . There is rest and hope then even for him . Up the thousand steps he climbs with pain , and at length he reaches a door through which a light shines and voices of praise sound . Here at last is the very ...
... sound of a sweet voice singing . There is rest and hope then even for him . Up the thousand steps he climbs with pain , and at length he reaches a door through which a light shines and voices of praise sound . Here at last is the very ...
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... sounds . The simplicity of Tennyson's diction is closely connected with his preference for words which belong to the original English stock , over those imported from French or other languages . The proportion of purely English words in ...
... sounds . The simplicity of Tennyson's diction is closely connected with his preference for words which belong to the original English stock , over those imported from French or other languages . The proportion of purely English words in ...
Page xxiii
... sound still stranger in the ears of those who have been in the habit of regarding the Latin element as essential to the dignity of poetry , no language has surpassed in epic dignity the English of these poems ' ( Edinb . Rev. 1859 ) ...
... sound still stranger in the ears of those who have been in the habit of regarding the Latin element as essential to the dignity of poetry , no language has surpassed in epic dignity the English of these poems ' ( Edinb . Rev. 1859 ) ...
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... sounds in verse so as to produce the required effects , there is danger perhaps of a misunderstanding . We must remember that we are dealing with the mature work of a poet who has made himself master of his instrument of expression as a ...
... sounds in verse so as to produce the required effects , there is danger perhaps of a misunderstanding . We must remember that we are dealing with the mature work of a poet who has made himself master of his instrument of expression as a ...
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... sound as to lead to a remarkable phonetic agreement , by a process of more or less unconscious selection and ... sounds , or by imitation in the rhythm of the verse of the action described , we must not always conclude that each ...
... sound as to lead to a remarkable phonetic agreement , by a process of more or less unconscious selection and ... sounds , or by imitation in the rhythm of the verse of the action described , we must not always conclude that each ...
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