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Page 102
... force of learned Latinate puns , though they would not have had that force for Donne's first readers . On the other hand , ' cordial ' retains , for us , both its senses , and , as a noun , refers to a medicine having certain properties ...
... force of learned Latinate puns , though they would not have had that force for Donne's first readers . On the other hand , ' cordial ' retains , for us , both its senses , and , as a noun , refers to a medicine having certain properties ...
Page 104
... force at all ; so he has it both ways . And so he is able to move at once to ' forms , souls , or principles ' ( with no disclaimer this time ) , to ens primum or scintilla spirituosa . By this time , the spirit of vegetables is for the ...
... force at all ; so he has it both ways . And so he is able to move at once to ' forms , souls , or principles ' ( with no disclaimer this time ) , to ens primum or scintilla spirituosa . By this time , the spirit of vegetables is for the ...
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... force he gave them in " The Idiot Boy ' . Wordsworth says comically that he studied the habits of asses before he wrote Peter Bell ; but it was a sort of study which strove to learn what was the meaning of the ass , not what it looked ...
... force he gave them in " The Idiot Boy ' . Wordsworth says comically that he studied the habits of asses before he wrote Peter Bell ; but it was a sort of study which strove to learn what was the meaning of the ass , not what it looked ...
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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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