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... phrase added to phrase brings Samson step by step towards glory , but holds the climax suspended : when it comes , it comes with devastating irony : hopes bred of heavenly prophecies of high exploits , divine instinct , heroic acts ...
... phrase added to phrase brings Samson step by step towards glory , but holds the climax suspended : when it comes , it comes with devastating irony : hopes bred of heavenly prophecies of high exploits , divine instinct , heroic acts ...
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... phrase ) , diffuse , sometimes self - consciously rhetorical and sometimes irresponsibly flippant . But there are compensating virtues : the copiousness of the animated raconteur , wit , variety , vivacity , sometimes a telling ...
... phrase ) , diffuse , sometimes self - consciously rhetorical and sometimes irresponsibly flippant . But there are compensating virtues : the copiousness of the animated raconteur , wit , variety , vivacity , sometimes a telling ...
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... phrase - the deposit of feeling and discipline , of emotion recollected in tranquillity - there is no more to say . The image of the affrighted dove conveys a wrong sort of distress ; and the following stanza is too close to specific ...
... phrase - the deposit of feeling and discipline , of emotion recollected in tranquillity - there is no more to say . The image of the affrighted dove conveys a wrong sort of distress ; and the following stanza is too close to specific ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
Copyright | |
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