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... true we should substitute the word private for personal , because surely there is a deeply personal emotion , which all can share , in Isaac Watts's ' When I survey the wondrous Cross ' ( we do not feel the need to substitute the ...
... true we should substitute the word private for personal , because surely there is a deeply personal emotion , which all can share , in Isaac Watts's ' When I survey the wondrous Cross ' ( we do not feel the need to substitute the ...
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... true , also , that Eliot could not accept Yeats's mythological structure ; and when he came to use the image of consumption by fire , in the greatest of his Four Quartets , it was the fire of redemption by the Holy Spirit , ' the one ...
... true , also , that Eliot could not accept Yeats's mythological structure ; and when he came to use the image of consumption by fire , in the greatest of his Four Quartets , it was the fire of redemption by the Holy Spirit , ' the one ...
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... true rhythms of the poetry they study . George Saintsbury said that the historical method of prosody ' by proper examination and comparison , detects the badness of bad ( verses ) . ' Yet it is just this pretension to detect the good ...
... true rhythms of the poetry they study . George Saintsbury said that the historical method of prosody ' by proper examination and comparison , detects the badness of bad ( verses ) . ' Yet it is just this pretension to detect the good ...
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