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Page 43
... feeling that is nauseated by a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility : we can hear him modulating his robust directness into holiday and lady terms and his thick northern burr into the accents of affected gentility ...
... feeling that is nauseated by a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility : we can hear him modulating his robust directness into holiday and lady terms and his thick northern burr into the accents of affected gentility ...
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... feeling as the poet invites a companion - a lover , as we learn later — to share it . We might expect a subtle oneness of the lovers , a blending into each other's feeling in the shared experience of moonlit tranquillity . But ...
... feeling as the poet invites a companion - a lover , as we learn later — to share it . We might expect a subtle oneness of the lovers , a blending into each other's feeling in the shared experience of moonlit tranquillity . But ...
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... feeling for the woman at his side , feeling for the vital wholeness of nature , thought , and language , have been perfectly blended ; now , for two stanzas , the think- ing mind takes over and with jarringly foreign imagery -slave ...
... feeling for the woman at his side , feeling for the vital wholeness of nature , thought , and language , have been perfectly blended ; now , for two stanzas , the think- ing mind takes over and with jarringly foreign imagery -slave ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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