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... less tact ) , there have always been those to admire the way in which - with ' strait ' , rough , dense ' , and ' head , hands , wings ' - Milton crowds stressed syllables together so as to make the vocal exertion in reading image the ...
... less tact ) , there have always been those to admire the way in which - with ' strait ' , rough , dense ' , and ' head , hands , wings ' - Milton crowds stressed syllables together so as to make the vocal exertion in reading image the ...
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... less metaphors for the Augustans to play with , nor that science and philosophy in their time provided less , or less attractive , metaphors than Eliza- bethan science and philosophy . But the Augustans are more eclectic . They take ...
... less metaphors for the Augustans to play with , nor that science and philosophy in their time provided less , or less attractive , metaphors than Eliza- bethan science and philosophy . But the Augustans are more eclectic . They take ...
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... less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ' only to be swayed back by ' less mercu- rial ' , is to produce in us a sort of self - balancing erectness that is rightly taken to be distinctive of eighteenth ...
... less mercurial ' , by which we are swayed one way by ' more ignorant ' only to be swayed back by ' less mercu- rial ' , is to produce in us a sort of self - balancing erectness that is rightly taken to be distinctive of eighteenth ...
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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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