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Page 119
... speak of " feasting " one's eyes or " devouring " with a look ? Why do we speak of " the voice " of conscience or of God as " the word " ? " Dover Beach " taps the earliest experience of our two major senses . Sight the child comes to ...
... speak of " feasting " one's eyes or " devouring " with a look ? Why do we speak of " the voice " of conscience or of God as " the word " ? " Dover Beach " taps the earliest experience of our two major senses . Sight the child comes to ...
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... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion . " 4 When , however , we turn from Johnson in 1765 to Maurice Morgann , à dozen years later , we turn the corner into truly Ro mantic criticism ...
... speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion . " 4 When , however , we turn from Johnson in 1765 to Maurice Morgann , à dozen years later , we turn the corner into truly Ro mantic criticism ...
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... speak of " the full strangeness and horror of the concluding analogy , " suggesting that the poem's defenses against anxiety , which seem so strong to me , seem weak to them.10 To speak of any affect as " built in " to a literary work ...
... speak of " the full strangeness and horror of the concluding analogy , " suggesting that the poem's defenses against anxiety , which seem so strong to me , seem weak to them.10 To speak of any affect as " built in " to a literary work ...
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