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Page 125
Berkeley's achievement in the Three Dialogues can be valued at the rate it deserves if that work is compared with Shaftesbury's The ... placed in another sense , so as to quell our disquiets about them - by rising out of dialogue .
Berkeley's achievement in the Three Dialogues can be valued at the rate it deserves if that work is compared with Shaftesbury's The ... placed in another sense , so as to quell our disquiets about them - by rising out of dialogue .
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and the point is made that in such an age as Shaftesbury's the philosophical dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conversations and disputations and many more ...
and the point is made that in such an age as Shaftesbury's the philosophical dialogue could be written only by swimming against the current , by taking few hints from the actual conduct of conversations and disputations and many more ...
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And in Mandeville's own 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 ...
And in Mandeville's own 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 ...
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Contents
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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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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