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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... means what Johnson meant by it : that is , as describing whatever pertains to ' natural philosophy ' or , as we should say , to the natural sciences . Such words as ' acrimony ' and ' volatile ' are , in this sense , eminently ...
... means what Johnson meant by it : that is , as describing whatever pertains to ' natural philosophy ' or , as we should say , to the natural sciences . Such words as ' acrimony ' and ' volatile ' are , in this sense , eminently ...
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... mean only what we should mean , that Clarke speaks his mind without fear or favour . He means that and he means more that Clarke is so concerned to arrive at the truth that he lets nothing stand in the way of helping others to do so . He ...
... mean only what we should mean , that Clarke speaks his mind without fear or favour . He means that and he means more that Clarke is so concerned to arrive at the truth that he lets nothing stand in the way of helping others to do so . He ...
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... means what the Elizabethans called . ' decorum ' , the proper maintaining of a convention once established . That ... means by ' strength ' what Jeffreys means , not what Cowper has in mind . It is a revealing illustration of how Byron's ...
... means what the Elizabethans called . ' decorum ' , the proper maintaining of a convention once established . That ... means by ' strength ' what Jeffreys means , not what Cowper has in mind . It is a revealing illustration of how Byron's ...
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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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