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In the sixth dialogue of his Alciphron , or the Minute Philosopher ( 1732 ) , he makes one of his four speakers declare , To inspire , is a Word borrowed from the Latin , and strictly taken means no more than to breathe or blow in ...
In the sixth dialogue of his Alciphron , or the Minute Philosopher ( 1732 ) , he makes one of his four speakers declare , To inspire , is a Word borrowed from the Latin , and strictly taken means no more than to breathe or blow in ...
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Thou didst thy quick'ning spirit breathe , Though I be taken from beneath , And but refin'd from earth . Thine eyes review'd th ' imperfect sketch Ere yet my limbs began to stretch And were for action ripe ; Before my members were of ...
Thou didst thy quick'ning spirit breathe , Though I be taken from beneath , And but refin'd from earth . Thine eyes review'd th ' imperfect sketch Ere yet my limbs began to stretch And were for action ripe ; Before my members were of ...
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... that certain metres , certain rhetorical figures , a certain vocabulary , go along with elegy , certain others with satire , the poet can expect his reader to understand quite quickly how any one poem he writes is to be taken ' .
... that certain metres , certain rhetorical figures , a certain vocabulary , go along with elegy , certain others with satire , the poet can expect his reader to understand quite quickly how any one poem he writes is to be taken ' .
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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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