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a reason to suppose that this isn't so ; that semantic changes are going on at least as rapidly in this period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation ...
a reason to suppose that this isn't so ; that semantic changes are going on at least as rapidly in this period as in any other and must be watched at least as closely ; above all , that some of these changes have to do with a relation ...
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For the truth seems to be that terms like ' spirit ' , ' tincture ' , ' attraction are so slippery in this period that there can be no certainty about their meaning in any context whatever . If so , then the question which Hobhouse and ...
For the truth seems to be that terms like ' spirit ' , ' tincture ' , ' attraction are so slippery in this period that there can be no certainty about their meaning in any context whatever . If so , then the question which Hobhouse and ...
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Of course scholars of the period know what Dr Erskine - Hill means , and will know better than to cavil . Yet is ' earnest and evangelical ' what we normally say of the England of William and Mary , and Anne , of the dissenters of that ...
Of course scholars of the period know what Dr Erskine - Hill means , and will know better than to cavil . Yet is ' earnest and evangelical ' what we normally say of the England of William and Mary , and Anne , of the dissenters of that ...
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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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