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Appreciation involves discrimination , and discrimination comes from extensive and intensive literary experience . It is only because the general reader in our time has not the leisure for such an ambitious program of reading that short ...
Appreciation involves discrimination , and discrimination comes from extensive and intensive literary experience . It is only because the general reader in our time has not the leisure for such an ambitious program of reading that short ...
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He distinguished between “ falling feet ” and “ falling rhythms , " where the stress comes first , and rising feet and rhythms , where the slack comes first . ( There are also “ rocking rhythms ” where the stress comes between two ...
He distinguished between “ falling feet ” and “ falling rhythms , " where the stress comes first , and rising feet and rhythms , where the slack comes first . ( There are also “ rocking rhythms ” where the stress comes between two ...
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When she is by , I leave my work ( I love her so sincerely ) ; My master comes , like any Turk , And bangs me most severely ; But let him bang his bellyful , I'll bear it all for Sally ; She is the darling of my heart , And she lives in ...
When she is by , I leave my work ( I love her so sincerely ) ; My master comes , like any Turk , And bangs me most severely ; But let him bang his bellyful , I'll bear it all for Sally ; She is the darling of my heart , And she lives in ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
HENRY HOWARD EARL OF SURREY 15161547 | 12 |
Come sleep O sleep the certain knot of peace 15 Stella oft sees the very face of woe | 18 |
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