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... whole width of the world . Civiliza- tions of the past , hitherto only superficially known or frag- mentarily conjectured , are yielding up more and more of their secrets . Even for our own country , the picture of the past is ...
... whole width of the world . Civiliza- tions of the past , hitherto only superficially known or frag- mentarily conjectured , are yielding up more and more of their secrets . Even for our own country , the picture of the past is ...
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... whole of ideas . If , realizing that any such justification is circular , they try to make the whole depend on something outside itself , they fail , as indeed they must ; for since the historical present includes in itself its own past ...
... whole of ideas . If , realizing that any such justification is circular , they try to make the whole depend on something outside itself , they fail , as indeed they must ; for since the historical present includes in itself its own past ...
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... whole poem : we cannot dismiss lines simply because they offer difficulty of such a kind . But because , unless my ear and judgement are wholly at fault , they have a ring and measure unlike their context , and indeed unlike that of the ...
... whole poem : we cannot dismiss lines simply because they offer difficulty of such a kind . But because , unless my ear and judgement are wholly at fault , they have a ring and measure unlike their context , and indeed unlike that of the ...
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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