The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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Page 170
... light in from time to time . Dryden does rather more in his stanzas than inadver- tently let the light in . What he has done , he has done with some deliberation . He judged , evidently , that what 170 THE OFFENSIVE Art.
... light in from time to time . Dryden does rather more in his stanzas than inadver- tently let the light in . What he has done , he has done with some deliberation . He judged , evidently , that what 170 THE OFFENSIVE Art.
Page 215
... light of something furtive but solid behind it ; something which accounts also for the momentary feeling that the vision has substance and is , despite its brevity , more real than , for example , this : Full in the midst , proud Fame's ...
... light of something furtive but solid behind it ; something which accounts also for the momentary feeling that the vision has substance and is , despite its brevity , more real than , for example , this : Full in the midst , proud Fame's ...
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... light in one promiscuous blaze ? Now prostrate ! dead ! behold that Caroline : No Maid cries , charming ! and no Youth , divine ! And lo the wretch ! whose vile , whose insect lust Lay'd this gay daughter of the Spring in dust . LIGHT ...
... light in one promiscuous blaze ? Now prostrate ! dead ! behold that Caroline : No Maid cries , charming ! and no Youth , divine ! And lo the wretch ! whose vile , whose insect lust Lay'd this gay daughter of the Spring in dust . LIGHT ...
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