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... once more , says of Ocean's Love to Cynthia , ' The chaotic syntax must often be the mark of an unfinished poem . Every reader will find passages where sentences are left hanging in the air , verbs without subjects , subjects without ...
... once more , says of Ocean's Love to Cynthia , ' The chaotic syntax must often be the mark of an unfinished poem . Every reader will find passages where sentences are left hanging in the air , verbs without subjects , subjects without ...
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... once again . At least once more , before he submerged his analsysis in the indul- gent haze of The Deserted Village , Goldsmith restated it . This was in chapter 19 of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) : ' No , Sir , ' replied I , ' I am ...
... once again . At least once more , before he submerged his analsysis in the indul- gent haze of The Deserted Village , Goldsmith restated it . This was in chapter 19 of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ) : ' No , Sir , ' replied I , ' I am ...
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... once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the sea- coast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at the ...
... once remembered , gives to the phrase the sense not only of guiding along a navigated track , but of teaching wings how to fly . In the same way , the sea- coast is not pathless , but only the coast imagined as duplicated at the ...
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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