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Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow that ... of prose and poetry , he was enunciating a principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to .
Scientific writing required a set vocabulary formed according to set principles , and it must therefore follow that ... of prose and poetry , he was enunciating a principle from which had come the very vocabulary he objected to .
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This is what the historians of the language have been maintaining for a long time , but in practice this principle hardly ever gets applied except in the periods of Old English and Middle English . For the most part we look in vain to ...
This is what the historians of the language have been maintaining for a long time , but in practice this principle hardly ever gets applied except in the periods of Old English and Middle English . For the most part we look in vain to ...
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designate the spiritual quality of certain temperaments and personalities , it is forced back , when Newton with learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin .
designate the spiritual quality of certain temperaments and personalities , it is forced back , when Newton with learned propriety adopts it to designate a principle of physics , upon its root meaning in Latin .
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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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