Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureDonald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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... 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 excite interest or emotion ; unin- teresting , lifeless ...
... 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 excite interest or emotion ; unin- teresting , lifeless ...
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... 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 , as of the cognate word ' astringe ' , in William Law in the 1740s a matter to which I may ...
... 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 , as of the cognate word ' astringe ' , in William Law in the 1740s a matter to which I may ...
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... sense besides their literal sense , the writers were forced to realize that many elevated words in use for centuries had them- selves originally been formed in precisely the same way , and the evidence of this was in their etymology ...
... sense besides their literal sense , the writers were forced to realize that many elevated words in use for centuries had them- selves originally been formed in precisely the same way , and the evidence of this was in their etymology ...
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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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