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... truth wittily when he declared , in a lecture on the subject , that if the Honours English candidate went to the door of the history classroom and took off his hat politely , he might be considered as having discharged his obligations ...
... truth wittily when he declared , in a lecture on the subject , that if the Honours English candidate went to the door of the history classroom and took off his hat politely , he might be considered as having discharged his obligations ...
Page 170
... truth despite himself . Shylock and Satan take on heroic proportions despite their creator's intention , becoming symbols of truths which social usage or rigid creeds have ignored , but which the kindled imagination of a poet divines ...
... truth despite himself . Shylock and Satan take on heroic proportions despite their creator's intention , becoming symbols of truths which social usage or rigid creeds have ignored , but which the kindled imagination of a poet divines ...
Page 210
... truth , moral or political " — there can be no end and no answer . Where Johnson comes nearer to the truth is in his complaint that “ the mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble ...
... truth , moral or political " — there can be no end and no answer . Where Johnson comes nearer to the truth is in his complaint that “ the mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence . Double , double , toil and trouble ...
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