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... understand what a writer says , he must understand the writer's words . The vocabulary of most readers is too small to understand even the denotations , that is , the literal meanings , of more than a few thousand words . But the ...
... understand what a writer says , he must understand the writer's words . The vocabulary of most readers is too small to understand even the denotations , that is , the literal meanings , of more than a few thousand words . But the ...
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... understand Hamlet , just as it is characteristic of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew that they could not understand Malvolio . In The Outer Edge of Society there is something shock- ing in Raymond's saying to Marcelle of Olivier , " You are ...
... understand Hamlet , just as it is characteristic of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew that they could not understand Malvolio . In The Outer Edge of Society there is something shock- ing in Raymond's saying to Marcelle of Olivier , " You are ...
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... understand the real significance in such a tremendous generalization as the theory of evolution . II The analytical study of an essay is always interesting because it reveals how essayists ' minds work . The aim of such study is ...
... understand the real significance in such a tremendous generalization as the theory of evolution . II The analytical study of an essay is always interesting because it reveals how essayists ' minds work . The aim of such study is ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |