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Mornings 'and' The Fountain '; also Matthew Arnold's' Thyrsis '--
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Arnold, whose fine elegy 'Thyrsis' commemorates him.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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The author of "Thyrsis" was not himself free from a certain melancholy hankering after "categorical imperatives," and beneath the cap and bells of his theological fooling, Shaw is, of course, as gravely moralistic as any puritan could wish.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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I remember how I used to return after long rambles through those fields and village lanes which one reads about in "Thyrsis," and linger in one of the cavernous book-shops which lie -- like little
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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Arthur Hallam takes it out of a comparison with the Greek; but the monody of 'Thyrsis', Matthew Arnold's commemoration of Clough, approaches nearer the Greek.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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He died in Florence, and Matthew Arnold wrote "Thyrsis" to commemorate his death.
The Germ, Issue #1: Thoughts Toward Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art Germ: Various Authors 1848
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_In this volume will be found "Empedocles on Etna"; "Thyrsis" (written in commemoration of the late Professor Clough); "Epilogue to Lessing's
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"Thyrsis," she said, "you must promise me that you will never do anything dreadful like that again.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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"Thyrsis," to use his own expression in a letter, "agreeing like two lambs in a world of wolves," and in his early sonnet (1848) "To a
A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885
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For example, even the lament within Theocritus's "First Idyl," the poem commonly regarded as initiating the genre, has, we are told, been sung by Thyrsis on earlier occasions.
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