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a ment , and the pooling of its findings ) , than they began to demand a naked and direct sort of prose appropriate to the lab . - book -a sort of prose handed down as a legacy from Dryden to the prose writers of the age of Queen Anne ...
a ment , and the pooling of its findings ) , than they began to demand a naked and direct sort of prose appropriate to the lab . - book -a sort of prose handed down as a legacy from Dryden to the prose writers of the age of Queen Anne ...
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And similarly , in a later period , with the prose of Johnson or Gibbon – when Johnson in a famous passage declares that pastoral is ' easy , vulgar and therefore disgusting ' , we are ready to recognize that no one of these words means ...
And similarly , in a later period , with the prose of Johnson or Gibbon – when Johnson in a famous passage declares that pastoral is ' easy , vulgar and therefore disgusting ' , we are ready to recognize that no one of these words means ...
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James Sutherland , in an essay to which all students of eighteenth - century prose are indebted , quotes an admirable passage from Colley Cibber's autobiography , and then observes : Nobody taught Cibber to write like this ; he learnt ...
James Sutherland , in an essay to which all students of eighteenth - century prose are indebted , quotes an admirable passage from Colley Cibber's autobiography , and then observes : Nobody taught Cibber to write like this ; he learnt ...
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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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