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In the Siberian journals the Sternean passages are less obtrusive and therefore less foolish . It may be that Ledyard , if he had lived to polish these writings for publication , would have ' worked them up ' offensively .
In the Siberian journals the Sternean passages are less obtrusive and therefore less foolish . It may be that Ledyard , if he had lived to polish these writings for publication , would have ' worked them up ' offensively .
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In passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even ...
In passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even ...
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Section III , with epigraph from Voltaire , begins with a passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a ...
Section III , with epigraph from Voltaire , begins with a passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a ...
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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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