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... truth , the question is not so simple . No doubt , as Mr. Summers says , art and life are different things ; but wherein precisely lies the difference ? Later , Mr. Summers justifies the comedies of the Restoration on the ground that ...
... truth , the question is not so simple . No doubt , as Mr. Summers says , art and life are different things ; but wherein precisely lies the difference ? Later , Mr. Summers justifies the comedies of the Restoration on the ground that ...
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... truth and in the principles of human nature . ' But Pope's so - called correctness was something very different . It consisted simply in a strict obedience to a perfectly arbitrary set of prosodic rules . His couplet was a purely ...
... truth and in the principles of human nature . ' But Pope's so - called correctness was something very different . It consisted simply in a strict obedience to a perfectly arbitrary set of prosodic rules . His couplet was a purely ...
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... truth is , that Vauvenargues was typically eighteenth century ; his literary treatment of philosophy , his philosophical treatment of literature , his love of emotion , his sarcasms upon the Church , are almost absurdly characteristic ...
... truth is , that Vauvenargues was typically eighteenth century ; his literary treatment of philosophy , his philosophical treatment of literature , his love of emotion , his sarcasms upon the Church , are almost absurdly characteristic ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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