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... whole an effect contrived elsewhere also , but nowhere so piercingly . ) Thus , both in what the poem says and in ... whole great tragedy , but then is pulled aside into a digression . Then we reach a point at which we realise that the ...
... whole an effect contrived elsewhere also , but nowhere so piercingly . ) Thus , both in what the poem says and in ... whole great tragedy , but then is pulled aside into a digression . Then we reach a point at which we realise that the ...
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... whole argument of the poem as he understands it . If it is pointed out that Ralegh was a pre - Empsonian , to whom it had not occurred that ambiguity was different from muddle , it can be retorted that he was at any rate a contemporary ...
... whole argument of the poem as he understands it . If it is pointed out that Ralegh was a pre - Empsonian , to whom it had not occurred that ambiguity was different from muddle , it can be retorted that he was at any rate a contemporary ...
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... whole , nor Christian man- kind as a whole ; nor even Christian Englishmen as a whole . ' We ' means ' We English Dissenters ' . This has to be the case . For what sense would it make to speak of the Church of England as ' A little Spot ...
... whole , nor Christian man- kind as a whole ; nor even Christian Englishmen as a whole . ' We ' means ' We English Dissenters ' . This has to be the case . For what sense would it make to speak of the Church of England as ' A little Spot ...
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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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