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He has Longfellow's style very happily, including the dropping from a bright and sometimes a sublime line to one which is flat and commonplace, as for instance in the ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “He has Longfellow's style very happily, including the dropping from a bright and sometimes a sublime line to one which…”
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He critiques a poet's style, noting the contrast between sublime and commonplace lines, which reflects on the nature of poetic expression.
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Nov 15, 2021
This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
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We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.
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