Seventeenth-century Prose: Modern Essays in CriticismStanley Eugene Fish Oxford University Press, 1971 - 572 pages |
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... chapter ) of the prefatory dedication . " Tis opportune to look back upon old times , and contemplate our Forefathers . Great examples grow thin , and to be fetched from the passed world . Simplicity flies away , and iniquity comes at ...
... chapter ) of the prefatory dedication . " Tis opportune to look back upon old times , and contemplate our Forefathers . Great examples grow thin , and to be fetched from the passed world . Simplicity flies away , and iniquity comes at ...
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Modern Essays in Criticism Stanley Eugene Fish. a sadness absent from Chapter II , where the scholarly investigator ... chapters all underscore this inescapable con- clusion : the universal failure of man's efforts at self - perpetuation ...
Modern Essays in Criticism Stanley Eugene Fish. a sadness absent from Chapter II , where the scholarly investigator ... chapters all underscore this inescapable con- clusion : the universal failure of man's efforts at self - perpetuation ...
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... Chapter V. It must indeed be recognized that without the extrordinary impact of the final chapter there would be much less critical motive for locating the causes of unity in this work . At the same time , seeing Urn Burial as a ...
... Chapter V. It must indeed be recognized that without the extrordinary impact of the final chapter there would be much less critical motive for locating the causes of unity in this work . At the same time , seeing Urn Burial as a ...
Contents
Lipsius Montaigne Bacon | 3 |
R F JONES Science and English Prose Style in the Third | 53 |
MORRIS W CROLL and R S CRANE Reviews of R F Joness Science | 90 |
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