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...English compositions, (at least for the las three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to S phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound...Hippocrene were all an abomination to him. In fancy 10 I can almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy,...

...compositions (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, I metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense,...might h^ave been conveyed with equal force and dignity I \ in plainer vtorAs.jLute, harp, and lyre, Muse, Muses, and inspirations, Pegasus, Parnassus and...

...trained by an austere Bowyer to a distrust of Pierian springs, lutes, lyres, Pegasus, and Hippocrene. "In fancy I can almost hear him now, exclaiming " Harp ? Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy, you mean ! Muse, boy, Muse. Your nurse's daughter, you mean ! Pierian spring ?...

...even that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. ***** Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...almost hear him now exclaiming, " Harp ? Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean ! Muse ! boy ! Muse ! your Nurse's daughter you mean ! Pierian Spring...

...even that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. ***** Lute, harp, and lyre ; muse, muses, and inspirations...can almost hear him now exclaiming, " Harp ? Harp f Lyre ? Pen and Ink ! Boy you mean I Muse I boy ! Muse I your Nurse's daughter you mean ! Pierian...

...our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education,) he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported...almost hear him now, exclaiming "Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean! Muse, boy, Muse? 1 'Lamb speaks of himself as only a Deputy Grecian, and...

...our own English compositions (at least for the last three years of our School education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported...almost hear him now exclaiming, ' Harp ? Harp ? Lyre ? Pen and ink, boy you mean ! Muse, boy, muse ? Your nurse's daughter, you mean! Pierian spring ? Oh,...

...that of the loftiest and wildest odes, had a logic of its own as severe as that of science. * * * * * Lute, harp, and lyre; muse, muses, and inspirations;...almost hear him now exclaiming, 'Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and Ink! Boy you mean! Muse! boy! Muse! your Nurse's daughter you mean! Pierian Spring! O Aye!...

...the logical, he disdained alike the imaginative and the effusive, the sublime and the affected. No phrase, metaphor, or image, 'unsupported by a sound...conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words' could survive the thrust of his realism. 'Harp? Harp? Lyre?' he would sneer: Ten and ink, boy, you...