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... imaginative drama — often of surprising fullness and complexity -which runs alongside but rarely invades everyday existence . As the child so the adult . It is common knowledge that for thousands civilized marriage runs on two planes ...
... imaginative drama — often of surprising fullness and complexity -which runs alongside but rarely invades everyday existence . As the child so the adult . It is common knowledge that for thousands civilized marriage runs on two planes ...
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... imagination were the equally vital motive forces . Moreover , Elizabethan literature was not precisely confined to ... imaginative freedom lessened , there developed that formal intellectualism which appears as the distinguishing ...
... imagination were the equally vital motive forces . Moreover , Elizabethan literature was not precisely confined to ... imaginative freedom lessened , there developed that formal intellectualism which appears as the distinguishing ...
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... imagination and mind . Insincerity and sentimentality and all falsity in literature come from inferior or perverted or misapplied imaginative and mental faculties , not from simple limitation of individual experience . Thus , though ...
... imagination and mind . Insincerity and sentimentality and all falsity in literature come from inferior or perverted or misapplied imaginative and mental faculties , not from simple limitation of individual experience . Thus , though ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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