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... kind- ness underlying his surface bullying . But he was important as a writer as well as a personality . His English Dictionary , though not actually the first , was the first to be produced with the aim of stabilizing the English ...
... kind- ness underlying his surface bullying . But he was important as a writer as well as a personality . His English Dictionary , though not actually the first , was the first to be produced with the aim of stabilizing the English ...
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... kind of " mock - heroic " device , which Pope uses more than once , is possible only when poets and their readers share a belief that there is an appropriate language for each kind of poetry . A clever misuse of language thus becomes a ...
... kind of " mock - heroic " device , which Pope uses more than once , is possible only when poets and their readers share a belief that there is an appropriate language for each kind of poetry . A clever misuse of language thus becomes a ...
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... kind of ironic humor , and if you do this because you are under a genuine misapprehension about the class to which the person addressed belongs , the re- sult is a kind of comedy . and In an age and a country which believe that a ...
... kind of ironic humor , and if you do this because you are under a genuine misapprehension about the class to which the person addressed belongs , the re- sult is a kind of comedy . and In an age and a country which believe that a ...
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