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Here what is spoken of is love ( a ) , the energy , for the most part ; but ' the vestal fire ' suggests Elizabeth , the object , love ( b ) . One of the neatest plays on the pun is A springe of bewties which tyme ripeth not ; for if ...
Here what is spoken of is love ( a ) , the energy , for the most part ; but ' the vestal fire ' suggests Elizabeth , the object , love ( b ) . One of the neatest plays on the pun is A springe of bewties which tyme ripeth not ; for if ...
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And so how can we reply to the reader who objects that if Ralegh had tidied them up , he would have spoiled them ? ... Perhaps the best proof of how Ralegh's mind was exercised continually by love as energy towards an object , played ...
And so how can we reply to the reader who objects that if Ralegh had tidied them up , he would have spoiled them ? ... Perhaps the best proof of how Ralegh's mind was exercised continually by love as energy towards an object , played ...
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object , but the sign of a total or concrete experience ( E ) . The error arises because of the assumption that the abstraction is from objects , instead of from experiences ( E ) . ( On the contrary , what we call ' objects ' are ...
object , but the sign of a total or concrete experience ( E ) . The error arises because of the assumption that the abstraction is from objects , instead of from experiences ( E ) . ( On the contrary , what we call ' objects ' are ...
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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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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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