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... dialogue . For this is Shaftesbury's own experiment in the manner of dialogue which elsewhere in the Characteristics he has recommended as a philosophical and literary form , a recommendation which he here repeats . As the sub - title ...
... dialogue . For this is Shaftesbury's own experiment in the manner of dialogue which elsewhere in the Characteristics he has recommended as a philosophical and literary form , a recommendation which he here repeats . As the sub - title ...
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... dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conver- sations and disputations and many more from the sense of how they should have been conducted . Accordingly ...
... dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conver- sations and disputations and many more from the sense of how they should have been conducted . Accordingly ...
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... dialogues his Antonio is far more of a man of straw , far less credible , than either Lysicles and Alciphron . Mandeville seems to have grown tired of the dialogue form as he proceeded with it , for the character of Antonio as sketched ...
... dialogues his Antonio is far more of a man of straw , far less credible , than either Lysicles and Alciphron . Mandeville seems to have grown tired of the dialogue form as he proceeded with it , for the character of Antonio as sketched ...
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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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