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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Yet in fact Goldsmith has here put his finger on an anomaly in eighteenth - century England that recent historians have found exceptionally significant : the anomaly that ' the number of capital statutes grew from about ...
Yet in fact Goldsmith has here put his finger on an anomaly in eighteenth - century England that recent historians have found exceptionally significant : the anomaly that ' the number of capital statutes grew from about ...
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... Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made to “ demand ' or to “ call upon'us to do something or other ; that is to say , these abstractions are made to act in a way which , as a matter of literal fact , only persons can act in .
... Justice ' or ' Humanity ' , is made to “ demand ' or to “ call upon'us to do something or other ; that is to say , these abstractions are made to act in a way which , as a matter of literal fact , only persons can act in .
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In fact I believe we have to deny that this passion is universal : for there are cultures of the unprivileged which elevate solidarity'as the highest value , and condemn as betrayals of that principle the distinctions achieved by ...
In fact I believe we have to deny that this passion is universal : for there are cultures of the unprivileged which elevate solidarity'as the highest value , and condemn as betrayals of that principle the distinctions achieved by ...
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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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