Scribner's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for the People, Volume 4Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Scribner & Company; The Century Company, 1872 - American literature |
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Page 84
... language can afford utterance to one truly great poet , it can to another , and to an indefinite number . A truly great poet's use of a language does not impoverish the language . It enriches it rather . But Mr. Lowell employs a more ...
... language can afford utterance to one truly great poet , it can to another , and to an indefinite number . A truly great poet's use of a language does not impoverish the language . It enriches it rather . But Mr. Lowell employs a more ...
Page 86
... language , and intimating that that one great poet could appear only at the brief crisis of the " freshest perfection " of the language , finds its appropriate offset in the essay on Chaucer , where Mr. Lowell says : " It is true that ...
... language , and intimating that that one great poet could appear only at the brief crisis of the " freshest perfection " of the language , finds its appropriate offset in the essay on Chaucer , where Mr. Lowell says : " It is true that ...
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... languages , or rather as sister languages , derived from a common , but undiscovered , Aryan language . But the argument proves too much . It proves that we should study Gothic , Old German , and Middle German before we study New German ...
... languages , or rather as sister languages , derived from a common , but undiscovered , Aryan language . But the argument proves too much . It proves that we should study Gothic , Old German , and Middle German before we study New German ...
Contents
AT HIS GATES Illustrated | 34 |
AFTER THE DARKNESS LIGHT | 44 |
DRAXY MILLERS DOWRY | 86 |
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