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... tion . Nor , on the other hand , is Sleep going to do anything to Night or to Death , as Sidney's sleep was going to knot peace and bait wit , until prevented by having its verbs wrenched from it one by one . There is no conceivable ...
... tion . Nor , on the other hand , is Sleep going to do anything to Night or to Death , as Sidney's sleep was going to knot peace and bait wit , until prevented by having its verbs wrenched from it one by one . There is no conceivable ...
Page 85
... tion ; expressiveness , not expression . " If Mrs. Langer is right , then poetry of this kind ( for her there is no other kind ) presents human feelings as they are born , develop , gather momentum , branch , sub - divide , coalesce ...
... tion ; expressiveness , not expression . " If Mrs. Langer is right , then poetry of this kind ( for her there is no other kind ) presents human feelings as they are born , develop , gather momentum , branch , sub - divide , coalesce ...
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... tion to the split infinitive can no longer be sustained . For " to walk " is not in any real sense the infinitive form of the verb " walk " ; to regard it so is only a grammarian's convenience . The whole of traditional grammar was thus ...
... tion to the split infinitive can no longer be sustained . For " to walk " is not in any real sense the infinitive form of the verb " walk " ; to regard it so is only a grammarian's convenience . The whole of traditional grammar was thus ...
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abstract according action active agree appears argument arrangement articulation asks becomes Berkeley Chinese clear close comes common concrete connection consider course criticism distinction dream effect elements energy English example experience explain expression fact feeling Fenollosa follows force function gives goes grammar hand Hence Hulme human idea images instance kind Langer language less lines literature logic matter meaning metaphor mind move movement narrative nature never night objective once particular passage pattern perhaps play poem poet poetic syntax poetry Pope possible Pound present prose question quoted reader reading relation rhetoric rhyme rhythm seems seen sense sentence significant sleep sort sound speak stand stanza statement strength structure suggest symbolist symbols syntactical taken theory things thought tion true turn verbs verse whole words Wordsworth writing