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...true-sublime ? Or all, they said, as earnest as the close ? Which yet with such a framework scarce could Then rose a little feud betwixt the two, Betwixt the...realists; And I, betwixt them both, to please them And yet to give the story as it rose, I moved as in a strange diagonal. And maybe neither pleased myself...

...why Not make her true-heroic — true-sublime f Or all, they said, as earnest as the close ? Which yet with such a framework scarce could be. Then rose a little feted betwixt the two, Betwixt the mockers and the realists : And I, betwixt them both, to please them...

...been fairly characterised by him as ' A Medley,' and that he should have been obliged at last to say, Then rose a little feud betwixt the two — Betwixt...diagonal, And maybe neither pleased myself nor them. However, the incongruity is there, and we must make the best of it. It interferes somewhat with our...

...— why Notmakehertrue-heroic — true-sublime? Or nil, they said, as earnest as the close ? Which yet with such a framework scarce could be. Then rose a little fend betwixt the two, Betwixt the mockers and the realists : And I, betwixt them both, to please them...

...true-sublime ? Or all, they said, as earnest as the close ? Which yet with such a framework scaree could be. Then rose a little feud betwixt the two,...please them both, And yet to give the story as it rose, -jp : I moved as in a strange diagonal, And maybe neither pleased myself nor them. But Lilia pleased...

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...why Not make her Uue-iieroic — true-sublime? Or all , they said , as earnest as the close? Which yet with such a framework scarce could be. Then rose...mockers and the realists : And I, betwixt them both, to pleas* them both, And yet to give the story ns it rose, I moved as in a strange diagonal. And may be...

...desired him to make a burlesque of it, and the female part who wanted a genuine epic, he compromised and moved as in a strange diagonal And maybe neither pleased myself nor them. This diagonal movement is the essential fault of the poem ; for it is not really a diagonal but a zigzag,...