The Essays of Mark Van Doren (1924-1972)Greenwood Press, 1980 - 270 sider |
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... understands , as none other does , the language of litera- ture . There is the English language , but a few who have ... understand they would have had no literature at all . The Elizabethan Age was ushered in by translations of Plutarch ...
... understands , as none other does , the language of litera- ture . There is the English language , but a few who have ... understand they would have had no literature at all . The Elizabethan Age was ushered in by translations of Plutarch ...
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... understanding of his subject increases until the subject is exhausted , until there is no more to understand ; and still there are no signs of labor or fatigue . Shakespeare has been denied an intel- lect . But whatever it took to write ...
... understanding of his subject increases until the subject is exhausted , until there is no more to understand ; and still there are no signs of labor or fatigue . Shakespeare has been denied an intel- lect . But whatever it took to write ...
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... understanding is so fine that the light in his mind almost puts out the stars — yet not those stars at which his ... understand it . " Joseph understood everything in his story except himself . His light never shone altogether inward ...
... understanding is so fine that the light in his mind almost puts out the stars — yet not those stars at which his ... understand it . " Joseph understood everything in his story except himself . His light never shone altogether inward ...
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