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 76
... never find the audience favourable to this kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben ... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our ...
... never find the audience favourable to this kind of writing , till we could produce as good plays in rhyme as Ben ... never equal them , but they could never equal themselves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our ...
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... never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this . Nor indeed ...
... never so much prejudice or even ruin our families , could never reach many ; whereas charity , in the other and truer sense , might be extended to all mankind . ' ( II , v ) Berkeley never makes candour mean as much as this . Nor indeed ...
Page 122
... never heard , and that the idea of them is obtained by some other sense ? And is there nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things ? Hyl . To deal ingenuously , I do not like it . And , after the con- cessions already ...
... never heard , and that the idea of them is obtained by some other sense ? And is there nothing in this contrary to nature and the truth of things ? Hyl . To deal ingenuously , I do not like it . And , after the con- cessions already ...
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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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