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" In our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in... "
The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical ... - Page 465
1834
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Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction: A Study of the Historical and ...

Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 220 pages
...for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? 1 'Lamb speaks of himself as only a Deputy Grecian, and yet there is no doubt that he enjoyed the advantage...
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More Than Conquerors

Ariadne Gilbert - Authors - 1920 - 456 pages
...severe. He was a keen, though merciless critic of compositions: "Harp? Harp? Lyre? "he would demand. " Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, Muse ? Your nurse's daughter, you mean I Pierian spring? Oh, aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose ! " One day, when Coleridge had just come back...
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Notorious Literary Attacks

Albert Mordell - American literature - 1926 - 314 pages
...that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre; muse, muses, and inspirations;...Muse! your Nurse's daughter you mean! Pierian Spring! O Aye! the cloister Pump!1 * * * * Our classical knowledge was the least of the good gifts which we...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hugh I'Anson Fausset - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 366 pages
...alike the imaginative and the effusive, the sublime and the affected. No phrase, metaphor, or image, 'unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words' could survive the thrust of his realism. 'Harp? Harp? Lyre?' he would sneer: Ten and ink, boy, you...
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New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 4

1894 - 760 pages
...severity. This sagacious master endeavoured also to ridicule the young poet out of false taste in poetry. -'Harp? harp? lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse,...boy, muse? Your nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian springs? Oh, ay, the cloister pump, I suppose." Coleridge remained at Christ's Hospital altogether...
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Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Chapters I-IV, XIV-XXII. Wordsworth ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.1 Lute, harp and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene were...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life ..., Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...King, 1728: Works 1654 in the catalogue appears to be (1774-8) v' 130. C had read an error. or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.i Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus, and Hippocrene, were...
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Augustan Subjects: Essays in Honor of Martin C. Battestin

Albert J. Rivero - History - 1997 - 324 pages
...favorite teacher, the Reverend James Boyer, not even schoolboys were granted their little machines. "Lute, harp, and lyre, muse, muses, and inspirations,...exclaiming, 'Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you tnean! Muse, boy, Muse? Your Nurse's daughter, you mean!'"' 20 Thus the gods went underground. University...
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Romanticism at the End of History

Jerome Christensen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...hanging judge: In our own English compositions ... he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense..."Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and Ink, boy, you mean! Muse, hoy, Muse? your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!"...
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Romanticism at the End of History

Jerome Christensen - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...hanging judge: In our own English compositions ... he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense...him now, exclaiming, "Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and Ink, hoy, you mean! Muse, hoy. Muse? your Nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring? Oh 'aye! the cloister-pump,...
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