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The point of comparing Berkeley with distinguished contemporaries like Mandeville and Shaftesbury is to make it clear that Berkeley , when he wrote his conversation - piece , did not share in a general bounty vouchsafed to all ...
The point of comparing Berkeley with distinguished contemporaries like Mandeville and Shaftesbury is to make it clear that Berkeley , when he wrote his conversation - piece , did not share in a general bounty vouchsafed to all ...
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Yet Dr Luce himself ( Berkeley's Immaterialism , Preface p.viii ) contends that Yeats had ' met the true Berkeley ' , when he wrote : ' Descartes , Locke , and Newton , took away the world ... Berkeley restored the world .
Yet Dr Luce himself ( Berkeley's Immaterialism , Preface p.viii ) contends that Yeats had ' met the true Berkeley ' , when he wrote : ' Descartes , Locke , and Newton , took away the world ... Berkeley restored the world .
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Thine eyes review'd th ' imperfect sketch Ere yet my limbs began to stretch And were for action ripe ; Before my members were of age For birth , thou wrote them in thy page , And with the fairest type , Which day by day assay'd to live ...
Thine eyes review'd th ' imperfect sketch Ere yet my limbs began to stretch And were for action ripe ; Before my members were of age For birth , thou wrote them in thy page , And with the fairest type , Which day by day assay'd to live ...
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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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