A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 22
... seems to have been dignified if frivolous . Behind this Court , at its zenith in the thirties , lay the ' personal rule ' of Charles . It was made possible by some dubious fiscal expe- dients , and by others legally correct but ...
... seems to have been dignified if frivolous . Behind this Court , at its zenith in the thirties , lay the ' personal rule ' of Charles . It was made possible by some dubious fiscal expe- dients , and by others legally correct but ...
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... seems to have given us an understanding denied to the eighteenth century , to the Victorians , and even to the Romantics . To those poets of our own time who have struggled to bring poetry back into relation with the widest possible ...
... seems to have given us an understanding denied to the eighteenth century , to the Victorians , and even to the Romantics . To those poets of our own time who have struggled to bring poetry back into relation with the widest possible ...
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... seems an extreme view , going much further than Mr Eliot's 1931 essay , which nevertheless contains sentences that appear to give it some partial countenance . But it is difficult to discuss the question without precise reference to ...
... seems an extreme view , going much further than Mr Eliot's 1931 essay , which nevertheless contains sentences that appear to give it some partial countenance . But it is difficult to discuss the question without precise reference to ...
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