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... matter in hand of a hundred things he will , unless he has great self - control , load his pages with metaphor and simile . There is a great difference between the magniloquence of the Jaco- bean writers , who were intoxicated with the ...
... matter in hand of a hundred things he will , unless he has great self - control , load his pages with metaphor and simile . There is a great difference between the magniloquence of the Jaco- bean writers , who were intoxicated with the ...
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... matter a conventional form that heightens the æsthetic effect . It enables the drama to achieve a beauty that is out of the question in a prose play . However much you may admire The Wild Duck , The Importance of Being Earnest [ 140 ] ...
... matter a conventional form that heightens the æsthetic effect . It enables the drama to achieve a beauty that is out of the question in a prose play . However much you may admire The Wild Duck , The Importance of Being Earnest [ 140 ] ...
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... matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the uni- verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ited the primæval earth . I must ask ...
... matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the uni- verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ited the primæval earth . I must ask ...
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