Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American LiteratureCarcanet, 1992 - 328 עמודים Donald Davie's major essays on British and American writers from Chaucer to Browning. |
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עמוד 37
... lived longer he would still have been worth remembering , as he is now , as an inspiring and ennobling figure in the background of many enterprises , not as a principal actor in any . As for what he did with his life , that is soon told ...
... lived longer he would still have been worth remembering , as he is now , as an inspiring and ennobling figure in the background of many enterprises , not as a principal actor in any . As for what he did with his life , that is soon told ...
עמוד 209
... lived to polish these writings for publication , would have ' worked them up ' offensively . And yet the commendation of women to which Burney refers ( pp . 182-3 ) is written in a much more sober and affect- ing style , Wordsworthian ...
... lived to polish these writings for publication , would have ' worked them up ' offensively . And yet the commendation of women to which Burney refers ( pp . 182-3 ) is written in a much more sober and affect- ing style , Wordsworthian ...
עמוד 243
... lived ? That Gibbon has lived ? That Hume has lived , though a conceited Scotchman ? That Bolingbroke has lived , tho ' a haughty arrogant supercilious Dogmatist ? that Burke and Johnson have lived , though superstitious Slaves or self ...
... lived ? That Gibbon has lived ? That Hume has lived , though a conceited Scotchman ? That Bolingbroke has lived , tho ' a haughty arrogant supercilious Dogmatist ? that Burke and Johnson have lived , though superstitious Slaves or self ...
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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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Adams admired appears argument believe Berkeley better body called century certainly comes contrary course criticism death dialogue diction distinction Dryden effect eighteenth eighteenth-century England English essay example experience expression fact feel figure follows force give hand human idea imagination important instance interest John Johnson kind language later laws learned least Ledyard less lines literary literature lived London look matter means metaphor mind nature never object once passage perhaps period person philosopher poem poet poetic poetry political Pope possible present principle prose question reader reason rhetoric seems seen sense Shakespeare Smart society sort speak spirit stand stanza style surely taken Taylor things thought tion tradition true turn verse whole Wordsworth writing wrote