The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... fact that the length of the line is determined not by syllables but by accents . While it is limited to four accents ... facts , and the chronology , here and there , is a little jumbled ; but , the main point is that the poetic tale ...
... fact that the length of the line is determined not by syllables but by accents . While it is limited to four accents ... facts , and the chronology , here and there , is a little jumbled ; but , the main point is that the poetic tale ...
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... fact requires a logic and a calculus which the literary historian should respectfully decline to practise . For , if the fact of not having written good poetry up to the age of twenty were sufficient to constitute a claim to poetical ...
... fact requires a logic and a calculus which the literary historian should respectfully decline to practise . For , if the fact of not having written good poetry up to the age of twenty were sufficient to constitute a claim to poetical ...
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... fact , what is characteristic of all Newman's writing is that form of genius which seizes upon the floating ... facts of human life as the ultimate basis of reason . He was , like many of the most earnest English thinkers of his time , a ...
... fact , what is characteristic of all Newman's writing is that form of genius which seizes upon the floating ... facts of human life as the ultimate basis of reason . He was , like many of the most earnest English thinkers of his time , a ...
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