Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 40
Page 84
... principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to . ) The second feature of eighteenth - century diction which enforces the point is the periphrasis – locutions like ' bearded product ' for ' corn ' , ' loquacious race ...
... principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to . ) The second feature of eighteenth - century diction which enforces the point is the periphrasis – locutions like ' bearded product ' for ' corn ' , ' loquacious race ...
Page 88
... principle hardly ever gets applied except in the periods of Old English and Middle English . For the most part we look in vain to the historians of language for any application of the principle to a period as ' modern ' as that of the ...
... principle hardly ever gets applied except in the periods of Old English and Middle English . For the most part we look in vain to the historians of language for any application of the principle to a period as ' modern ' as that of the ...
Page 93
... principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His weightiness is all in his lack of buoyancy ...
... principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin . ' Gravity ' becomes ' gravitas ' , becomes ' weight ' . And so , once again , a grave thinker becomes a leaden - footed thinker . His weightiness is all in his lack of buoyancy ...
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 |
Copyright | |
23 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Adams admired appears argument believe Berkeley better body called century certainly comes contrary course criticism death dialogue diction distinction Dryden effect eighteenth eighteenth-century England English essay example experience expression fact feel figure follows force give hand human idea imagination important instance interest John Johnson kind language later laws learned least Ledyard less lines literary literature lived London look matter means metaphor mind nature never object once passage perhaps period person philosopher poem poet poetic poetry political Pope possible present principle prose question reader reason rhetoric seems seen sense Shakespeare Smart society sort speak spirit stand stanza style surely taken Taylor things thought tion tradition true turn verse whole Wordsworth writing wrote