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... fact that it is as it is ; if it were something else our pleasure would be different . And we do not " understand " the poem by paraphrasing it , by “ translating ” it into prose . The meaning of the poem cannot be separated out from ...
... fact that it is as it is ; if it were something else our pleasure would be different . And we do not " understand " the poem by paraphrasing it , by “ translating ” it into prose . The meaning of the poem cannot be separated out from ...
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... fact , a boy's characters : fabulous beings , drawn not critically but in wonder . And one of them is quite excellent , the gentlemanly boatswain Mr. Chucks , a comic creation Dickens would not have been ashamed of . Marryat's talent ...
... fact , a boy's characters : fabulous beings , drawn not critically but in wonder . And one of them is quite excellent , the gentlemanly boatswain Mr. Chucks , a comic creation Dickens would not have been ashamed of . Marryat's talent ...
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... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
... fact , and from the related fact that , formally , he was a man of little education writing for a public often more poorly educated than himself . The public he wrote for was largely a new public brought to consciousness by the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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