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" Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone... "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 167
edited by - 1884
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The English poets, selections, ed. by T.H. Ward. Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 ' Then began he...
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The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 402 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can he no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent and can therefore do us most good,...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very dissimilar. But...
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Choice Literature, Volume 4

1880 - 400 pages
...inferior; • Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent and can therefore do us most good,...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them ; it may be very dissimilar. But...
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The English Poets: Selections

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 pages
...inferior.^ v D Indeed there can Ke no more useful help for discoverlng what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he...
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Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 634 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's rnind lines and expressions of the great masters, arid to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry....
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Essays in Criticism: Second Series

Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and and the men of his lineage, and Charlemagne his liege lord who nourished him." — Chanson de Roland,...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...inferior. Indeed Ithere can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to appl) them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1889 - 628 pages
...inferior. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most...lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apph them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 14

1906 - 560 pages
...be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent . . . than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions...and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. . . But if we have any tact we shall find them ... an infallible touchstone for detecting the presence...
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