Word: donnee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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L. B. R. BRIGGS.ENGLISH 28. Members of English 28 will please read for Tuesday, January 4, "Ben Jonson" in "Ward's English Poets"; for Thursday, January 6, "Izaak Walton's Life of John Donne."
are the conditions of permanence? Immediate or contemporaneous recognition is certainly not dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of...
and this is true so far as it goes, though it goes perhaps hardly far enough. The law also calls only the earth and what is immovably attached to it real property, but I am of opinion that those only are real possessions which abide with a man after he...