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... verb fly ' is swirled by the impulse to set and social ' before ' arts ' where it belongs - or where it would belong in prose . The writer is banking on the kinship of Augustan prose and verse to enable him to play off expectation ...
... verb fly ' is swirled by the impulse to set and social ' before ' arts ' where it belongs - or where it would belong in prose . The writer is banking on the kinship of Augustan prose and verse to enable him to play off expectation ...
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... verb after I and a plural verb after they . A scale of descriptive delicacy ? permits the grammarian to take account of the likeness or equivalence of linguistic items , whether in shape or function , whilst not neglect- ing , unless he ...
... verb after I and a plural verb after they . A scale of descriptive delicacy ? permits the grammarian to take account of the likeness or equivalence of linguistic items , whether in shape or function , whilst not neglect- ing , unless he ...
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... verb + object construction ( a weak form of parallelism ) in He found his key and opened the door . However , as the clause with a direct object is very common in English , the general probability of such a pattern is in any case fairly ...
... verb + object construction ( a weak form of parallelism ) in He found his key and opened the door . However , as the clause with a direct object is very common in English , the general probability of such a pattern is in any case fairly ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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