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... passage , a given line , a given phrase will have its individual density . I cannot conceive of a method of scoring which would satisfy myself , even if the stupendous labour of reckoning were practicable ; however , I am open to ...
... passage , a given line , a given phrase will have its individual density . I cannot conceive of a method of scoring which would satisfy myself , even if the stupendous labour of reckoning were practicable ; however , I am open to ...
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... passage by being careful to say that the pallor stages betrayed the fraud not necessarily to Uriel but to any good eye that might be close enough to see them . Still , if Uriel did not see them they do not matter . It would have been ...
... passage by being careful to say that the pallor stages betrayed the fraud not necessarily to Uriel but to any good eye that might be close enough to see them . Still , if Uriel did not see them they do not matter . It would have been ...
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... passage , or that the poet need know the passage or even have heard of Plato . All he means is that in the line , in the cooperations among its words , there is active something which can also be exemplified ( and often can best be ...
... passage , or that the poet need know the passage or even have heard of Plato . All he means is that in the line , in the cooperations among its words , there is active something which can also be exemplified ( and often can best be ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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