Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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... fact a diminution of the subjects free- dom ; but every attempt to render the government more popular , not only impairs natural liberty , but even will at last , dissolve the political constitution . ( 2 : 211-12 ) Thus the Englishman ...
... fact a diminution of the subjects free- dom ; but every attempt to render the government more popular , not only impairs natural liberty , but even will at last , dissolve the political constitution . ( 2 : 211-12 ) Thus the Englishman ...
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... fact , only persons can act in . And thus , when we respond to declarations like these ( whether we go along with them or repudiate them ) , at the edge of our consciousness there is a hazy image of a sort of person called Justice or ...
... fact , only persons can act in . And thus , when we respond to declarations like these ( whether we go along with them or repudiate them ) , at the edge of our consciousness there is a hazy image of a sort of person called Justice or ...
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... fact does nothing of the kind . He is misled by a mistaken and out - dated notion of what originality is , in litera- ture . The Discourses on Davila , at least the fourteen essays of useful reflections embedded in them , are a literary ...
... fact does nothing of the kind . He is misled by a mistaken and out - dated notion of what originality is , in litera- ture . The Discourses on Davila , at least the fourteen essays of useful reflections embedded in them , are a literary ...
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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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