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... better . Ballet is not only as natural as drama ; potentially , at any rate , it is more natural , and the more nearly drama approaches the dance , the more natural and better it will be . It is here that Dryden is most the Elizabethan ...
... better . Ballet is not only as natural as drama ; potentially , at any rate , it is more natural , and the more nearly drama approaches the dance , the more natural and better it will be . It is here that Dryden is most the Elizabethan ...
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... better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again - not from the elated and innocent Berkeley of Siris , but from Alciphron , his dialogues of 1732 : The Wheels of Government go on , though wound up by ...
... better to withdraw into the period I defined . This , then , is from Berkeley again - not from the elated and innocent Berkeley of Siris , but from Alciphron , his dialogues of 1732 : The Wheels of Government go on , though wound up by ...
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... better than the Romans ... ? ' But it is better to avoid giving any impression that great literature is a matter of detachable purple passages . On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is ...
... better than the Romans ... ? ' But it is better to avoid giving any impression that great literature is a matter of detachable purple passages . On the contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is ...
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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