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44-9 ) ' Dramatic ' is a poor word for this effect . One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak ...
44-9 ) ' Dramatic ' is a poor word for this effect . One wants instead to speak of ' muscularity ' , using ' muscular ' , however , in a special sense , different from ( because more literal than ) the sense in which we can justly speak ...
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What is surprising is that these effects are rather the exception than the rule . Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect , as in the invocation to Light , are in evidence ...
What is surprising is that these effects are rather the exception than the rule . Neither kinetic and dramatic effect , as in the lines on Satan's fall , nor narrative and musical effect , as in the invocation to Light , are in evidence ...
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This is a different case , because Swift undoubtedly wants his young clergyman to follow Demosthenes ' Greek model ; yet the effect of ' sincere , more ignorant , and less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ...
This is a different case , because Swift undoubtedly wants his young clergyman to follow Demosthenes ' Greek model ; yet the effect of ' sincere , more ignorant , and less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ...
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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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