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Page 16
... effect reverses this relationship , bracketing off the cosmic scheme , and at the same time the unifying epic structure breaks down into a variety of styles . The first of these styles , describing the inflammatory activities of the ...
... effect reverses this relationship , bracketing off the cosmic scheme , and at the same time the unifying epic structure breaks down into a variety of styles . The first of these styles , describing the inflammatory activities of the ...
Page 49
... effect of an action on nature , the second stresses the significance of this effect for the poet , and this alternation of external and internal is continued by the third and fourth stanzas : 3 What a few words from thy rich stock did ...
... effect of an action on nature , the second stresses the significance of this effect for the poet , and this alternation of external and internal is continued by the third and fourth stanzas : 3 What a few words from thy rich stock did ...
Page 114
... effect was not per- suasion but transport , found no place in Cowley's short definition ' . Until Boileau explained ' discours ' in non - rhetorical terms , there was no basis for a stylistic decorum which would en- compass either ...
... effect was not per- suasion but transport , found no place in Cowley's short definition ' . Until Boileau explained ' discours ' in non - rhetorical terms , there was no basis for a stylistic decorum which would en- compass either ...
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