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Page 163
... happy acceptance of easygoing poverty . To seek for profundity of ethical thought here would be to miss the point of the poem , which seeks to capture a transitory state of mind rather than to state general principles . The ' Epistle ...
... happy acceptance of easygoing poverty . To seek for profundity of ethical thought here would be to miss the point of the poem , which seeks to capture a transitory state of mind rather than to state general principles . The ' Epistle ...
Page 254
... happy sympathy , into a celebration of Tam's mood . The double rhymes ( ' happy ' and ' nappy ' ; ' treasure ' and ' pleasure ' ) help to give the impres- sion of a grand , carefree , snap of the fingers , while the final rhyming of ...
... happy sympathy , into a celebration of Tam's mood . The double rhymes ( ' happy ' and ' nappy ' ; ' treasure ' and ' pleasure ' ) help to give the impres- sion of a grand , carefree , snap of the fingers , while the final rhyming of ...
Page 281
... happy , assured quality of the double rhymes , and the gradual movement , through a description of the successive phases of the action to the final climactic affirmation , show such mastery of this kind of lyric expression that Henley ...
... happy , assured quality of the double rhymes , and the gradual movement , through a description of the successive phases of the action to the final climactic affirmation , show such mastery of this kind of lyric expression that Henley ...
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