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... exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth's Immortality Ode , for instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was concerned just as much with making ...
... exist at all ; the two may be fused . This is evident if we consider a poem , Wordsworth's Immortality Ode , for instance . Wordsworth's aim there was certainly not solely to create beauty ; he was concerned just as much with making ...
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... exist independently of their author . Had she allowed them to exist independently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an object ...
... exist independently of their author . Had she allowed them to exist independently of her all the time she would truly have been a great novelist . There is Lady Clonbrony , for instance , an object of contempt to her guests , an object ...
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... exist only at the expense of the other . This clash between rival goods is dramatized in the fate of Hyacinth Robinson , and the peculiar poignancy of his fate comes from the fact that the choice he must make between rival goods ...
... exist only at the expense of the other . This clash between rival goods is dramatized in the fate of Hyacinth Robinson , and the peculiar poignancy of his fate comes from the fact that the choice he must make between rival goods ...
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