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... POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's son - Cupid and Psyche The road to ruin -- The chariot of the Sun ... poet and thief - An anomaly . IX . THE RENAISSANCE The new learning - The causes of the awakening - Ariosto and ...
... POETS Words and phrases - The great god Pan - Mercury's son - Cupid and Psyche The road to ruin -- The chariot of the Sun ... poet and thief - An anomaly . IX . THE RENAISSANCE The new learning - The causes of the awakening - Ariosto and ...
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... aims at placing that work in historical perspective , showing that from the beginning until now , from the nameless poets of the earliest scriptures down to 1 Robert Browning , the spirit of man when most 3 INTRODUCTION.
... aims at placing that work in historical perspective , showing that from the beginning until now , from the nameless poets of the earliest scriptures down to 1 Robert Browning , the spirit of man when most 3 INTRODUCTION.
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... poets down to Walter Savage Landor , to whom it would have been possible for some of the readers of this OUT- LINE to have spoken . Or to take another , and by the taste of to - day , a more popular example . The hungry reader of the ...
... poets down to Walter Savage Landor , to whom it would have been possible for some of the readers of this OUT- LINE to have spoken . Or to take another , and by the taste of to - day , a more popular example . The hungry reader of the ...
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... poet , and touched on by Prior , Shelley , and other moderns . Apollo , the sun - god , fell in love with Daphne , the dew , the daughter of the god of the river . The god pursued her and she fled to her father for refuge . As her feet ...
... poet , and touched on by Prior , Shelley , and other moderns . Apollo , the sun - god , fell in love with Daphne , the dew , the daughter of the god of the river . The god pursued her and she fled to her father for refuge . As her feet ...
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... poet as the most useful of all the servants of the State . Cen- turies afterwards Molière and La Fontaine depended on the bounty of Louis XIV , and English men of letters in the eight- eenth century had either to find a patron or to ...
... poet as the most useful of all the servants of the State . Cen- turies afterwards Molière and La Fontaine depended on the bounty of Louis XIV , and English men of letters in the eight- eenth century had either to find a patron or to ...
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