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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We can see Alice's Wonderland logic operating with the word ' spirit ' , when we turn to another nineteenth - century example , Charles Lever's novel of 1841 , Charles O'Malley . Captain Power , a character in the novel , recommends the ...
We can see Alice's Wonderland logic operating with the word ' spirit ' , when we turn to another nineteenth - century example , Charles Lever's novel of 1841 , Charles O'Malley . Captain Power , a character in the novel , recommends the ...
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It should seem that the forms , souls , or principles of vegetable life subsist in the light or solar emanation ; which in respect of the macrocosm is what the animal spirit is to the microcosm the interior tegument , the subtle ...
It should seem that the forms , souls , or principles of vegetable life subsist in the light or solar emanation ; which in respect of the macrocosm is what the animal spirit is to the microcosm the interior tegument , the subtle ...
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receive no Virtue from it , then it would stand in its own first Birth of Wrath , Sourness , Bitterness , and Astringency , just as the Devils do , who have turned back into their own dark Root , and rejected the Light and Spirit of God ...
receive no Virtue from it , then it would stand in its own first Birth of Wrath , Sourness , Bitterness , and Astringency , just as the Devils do , who have turned back into their own dark Root , and rejected the Light and Spirit of God ...
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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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