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For ' insipid ' as an adjective , the OED gives three senses , as follows ( 1 ) ' Without taste , tasteless ' , of which it gives six examples , ranging between 1620 and 1822 ; ( 2 ) a figurative sense , ' Wanting the qualities which ...
For ' insipid ' as an adjective , the OED gives three senses , as follows ( 1 ) ' Without taste , tasteless ' , of which it gives six examples , ranging between 1620 and 1822 ; ( 2 ) a figurative sense , ' Wanting the qualities which ...
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it today ) is John Galt's Entail of 1823 , just as its earliest example of a figurative sense for ' astringent ' comes from Byron's Don Juan , Book 5 , in 1820. I think I have found what amounts to figurative use of both these words ...
it today ) is John Galt's Entail of 1823 , just as its earliest example of a figurative sense for ' astringent ' comes from Byron's Don Juan , Book 5 , in 1820. I think I have found what amounts to figurative use of both these words ...
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... by giving them a figurative sense besides their literal sense , the writers were forced to realize that many ... but occurring in a construction that is Latin or in a sense that properly belongs to the Latin original , as when ...
... by giving them a figurative sense besides their literal sense , the writers were forced to realize that many ... but occurring in a construction that is Latin or in a sense that properly belongs to the Latin original , as when ...
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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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