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... lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manu- script against both these passages , which may be meant to signify this . And yet even here ...
... lines 193-200 , and also 200-212 , being false starts intended for later deletion or else transference elsewhere . There are marks in the manu- script against both these passages , which may be meant to signify this . And yet even here ...
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... lines are end- stopped - both ' uproar ' in the first , for instance , and ' shunnd ' in the second , ending a parenthesis with the end of a line - but that where the line is not end - stopped , the swing of the reading eye or voice ...
... lines are end- stopped - both ' uproar ' in the first , for instance , and ' shunnd ' in the second , ending a parenthesis with the end of a line - but that where the line is not end - stopped , the swing of the reading eye or voice ...
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... lines , when abstracted from them , may be identical with the bearing of some lines in ' Tintern Abbey ' , but these differ from those in being informed with glee , carried on the back of that lunatic elation which Wordsworth was at ...
... lines , when abstracted from them , may be identical with the bearing of some lines in ' Tintern Abbey ' , but these differ from those in being informed with glee , carried on the back of that lunatic elation which Wordsworth was at ...
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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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