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...theories and practices in his novels, so that it is a pleasure to see such a master handling old methods. In Beauchamp's Career and Diana of the Cross Ways we see the effects of passion, poetry and strength so commingled as to form a maize or thicket of difficulties similar to those which we encounter in Carlyle and Browning...
...going on the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, marking one for each run. It is plain, then, that it is to the advantages of the party who strikes the ball to make it jump very far. Sometimes it tumbles into a thicket, and the players take hours before they can get hold of it; and all this time the player does not cease running from post to post and marking points. Then those who find the ball arrive exhausted at the field of battle, and the one who has been running falls...
...Cause he'd forgotten his clothes, hide himself in an owl-headed thicket...
...thicket nigh...
...thicket of the maiden's dread...