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... contrary , Howard Erskine - Hill's gallery is assembled with great imagination , and very sensitively arranged : two peers of the realm , one Catholic , the other Protestant ; three self - made men ( Walter , Blunt , and Allen ) ; and ...
... contrary , Howard Erskine - Hill's gallery is assembled with great imagination , and very sensitively arranged : two peers of the realm , one Catholic , the other Protestant ; three self - made men ( Walter , Blunt , and Allen ) ; and ...
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... contrary , what we call ' objects ' are psychologically abstractions from experiences ( E ) . ) The implications of this are explosive indeed . In a tediously famous programmatic poem , " The Red Wheelbarrow ' , William Carlos Williams ...
... contrary , what we call ' objects ' are psychologically abstractions from experiences ( E ) . ) The implications of this are explosive indeed . In a tediously famous programmatic poem , " The Red Wheelbarrow ' , William Carlos Williams ...
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... contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly connected with what makes them also a penetrating and perennially relevant examination of political behaviour . Accordingly ...
... contrary , what makes the Discourses an achievement of the literary imagination is something much more nearly connected with what makes them also a penetrating and perennially relevant examination of political behaviour . Accordingly ...
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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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