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Page 41
But we feel them on our faces now . And that is a tribute to Clarendon , but to Sidney Godolphin too . Take the other part of Clarendon's account , which tells of Godolphin's melancholy , his love of retirement and study ...
But we feel them on our faces now . And that is a tribute to Clarendon , but to Sidney Godolphin too . Take the other part of Clarendon's account , which tells of Godolphin's melancholy , his love of retirement and study ...
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... regard what some other part is thinking and feeling , even as it quite ' sincerely ' thinks and feels . ... harnessing the will to one half of the divided personality it induces the other half to think and feel as it wants to feel .
... regard what some other part is thinking and feeling , even as it quite ' sincerely ' thinks and feels . ... harnessing the will to one half of the divided personality it induces the other half to think and feel as it wants to feel .
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The pathos in the close derives from our compassionate realization that the child feels the same complex emotion as the man ... And yet that's not right either ; for , left to himself , the boy would feel no need to account for it .
The pathos in the close derives from our compassionate realization that the child feels the same complex emotion as the man ... And yet that's not right either ; for , left to himself , the boy would feel no need to account for it .
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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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