Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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Page 103
... means to make it , the emphasis always falling upon the right places , and the rhythm coming to a regular close with the completion of the thought . This is not , of course , a mere trick of style . Whatever it may have been with his ...
... means to make it , the emphasis always falling upon the right places , and the rhythm coming to a regular close with the completion of the thought . This is not , of course , a mere trick of style . Whatever it may have been with his ...
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... mean merely a different taste in poetry ; it means ultimately the perception of a different world . At the basic level of perception Scott and Boswell show less difference than one would have expected . Scott still perceived the world ...
... mean merely a different taste in poetry ; it means ultimately the perception of a different world . At the basic level of perception Scott and Boswell show less difference than one would have expected . Scott still perceived the world ...
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... mean high winds than ' gelid ' can mean icy . Goldsmith's line , therefore , does not exhibit poetic diction at all . It ... means a movement of air rather than a brisk movement of air . When the word is qualified by an epithet connoting ...
... mean high winds than ' gelid ' can mean icy . Goldsmith's line , therefore , does not exhibit poetic diction at all . It ... means a movement of air rather than a brisk movement of air . When the word is qualified by an epithet connoting ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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