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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Page 94
... look for jokes among the serious students of Newton and Locke ' , yet ' a person brought up in the old tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his purpose ' . In fact , Jefferson's caution ...
... look for jokes among the serious students of Newton and Locke ' , yet ' a person brought up in the old tradition of wit might well find that some of the ideas of Newton and Locke suited his purpose ' . In fact , Jefferson's caution ...
Page 97
... look silly . In fact , this pun or this metaphor ( the device partakes of both ) , strad- dling with one foot in , one out of the laboratory , is a distinctive feature of Augustan writing , in verse and in some sorts of prose ; and it ...
... look silly . In fact , this pun or this metaphor ( the device partakes of both ) , strad- dling with one foot in , one out of the laboratory , is a distinctive feature of Augustan writing , in verse and in some sorts of prose ; and it ...
Page 140
... look at , the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indis- pensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one ...
... look at , the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indis- pensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one ...
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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