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Page 60
... appear to be the attempt to reconcile the two extremes , but it fails . And it fails because Dryden is finally too partisan in political satire , too earnest and strident . MacFlecknoe , on the other hand , fine though it is , shows a ...
... appear to be the attempt to reconcile the two extremes , but it fails . And it fails because Dryden is finally too partisan in political satire , too earnest and strident . MacFlecknoe , on the other hand , fine though it is , shows a ...
Page 104
... appear'd to me more and more every Day , and I began really to love the Creature ; and on his Side , I believe he lov'd me more than it was possible for him ever to love any Thing before . ( p . 213 ) The first half of this concerns ...
... appear'd to me more and more every Day , and I began really to love the Creature ; and on his Side , I believe he lov'd me more than it was possible for him ever to love any Thing before . ( p . 213 ) The first half of this concerns ...
Page 162
... appears to contain features common in eighteenth - century poetry . It seems fragmentary and rambling in char- acter , deficient in such ' rational ' elements as sequence , consistency and logical relation . It appears , too , to be ...
... appears to contain features common in eighteenth - century poetry . It seems fragmentary and rambling in char- acter , deficient in such ' rational ' elements as sequence , consistency and logical relation . It appears , too , to be ...
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