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... offered as taken from a given point in time - offered by a critic aspiring ( at any rate ) to see as one living in his own time . I open with the seventeenth century because I can do all that I want to do without going back earlier . In ...
... offered as taken from a given point in time - offered by a critic aspiring ( at any rate ) to see as one living in his own time . I open with the seventeenth century because I can do all that I want to do without going back earlier . In ...
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... offered in itself apart from any substance , offered instead of any object , is what , though it may make Shelley intoxicating at fifteen makes him . almost unreadable , except in very small quantities of his best , to the mature . Even ...
... offered in itself apart from any substance , offered instead of any object , is what , though it may make Shelley intoxicating at fifteen makes him . almost unreadable , except in very small quantities of his best , to the mature . Even ...
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... offered ; it is , or should be , so plain that the poem is a mere tumbled out spate ( spontaneous overflow ' ) of poeticalitics , the place of each one of which Shelley could have filled with another without the least difficulty and ...
... offered ; it is , or should be , so plain that the poem is a mere tumbled out spate ( spontaneous overflow ' ) of poeticalitics , the place of each one of which Shelley could have filled with another without the least difficulty and ...
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