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Page 40
It is as if on a screen or through a window we saw the little knot of Cavalier horsemen , and then one tiny man turn his horse abruptly for home , while the others look puzzled , or perhaps they call after him a good - humoured joke .
It is as if on a screen or through a window we saw the little knot of Cavalier horsemen , and then one tiny man turn his horse abruptly for home , while the others look puzzled , or perhaps they call after him a good - humoured joke .
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... the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indispensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one facet .
... the term and the concept , ' the Enlightenment ' , turn out to be natural and indispensable for designating a well - defined phase of that literature , or rather of the whole foreign culture of which the literature is one facet .
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As in other perspectives , what has been denounced in English eighteenth - century society as ' corrupt ' ( and was even so denounced at the time ) turns out to be the margin of humanity – of humane feelings and human relationships ...
As in other perspectives , what has been denounced in English eighteenth - century society as ' corrupt ' ( and was even so denounced at the time ) turns out to be the margin of humanity – of humane feelings and human relationships ...
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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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