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... talk ) and that a factor in this as in other large - scale undertakings was the ambition of an American university press to match the achievements of Oxford and Cambridge . The support provided by Frederick Coykendall ( 1882-1954 ) ...
... talk ) and that a factor in this as in other large - scale undertakings was the ambition of an American university press to match the achievements of Oxford and Cambridge . The support provided by Frederick Coykendall ( 1882-1954 ) ...
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... talking of the giants , nor am I talking of the sum of the parts of American scholarship ; I am referring to the ordinary , not especially distinguished academic , who has sweated out his Ph.D. ( the subject having been chosen for him ...
... talking of the giants , nor am I talking of the sum of the parts of American scholarship ; I am referring to the ordinary , not especially distinguished academic , who has sweated out his Ph.D. ( the subject having been chosen for him ...
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... talk about ? Is the latest symbolic squeeze given to Wuthering Heights by a critic determined to say something new about the novel at all costs ( I have just read about a dozen fairly recent arti- cles on Wuthering Heights , of which ...
... talk about ? Is the latest symbolic squeeze given to Wuthering Heights by a critic determined to say something new about the novel at all costs ( I have just read about a dozen fairly recent arti- cles on Wuthering Heights , of which ...
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