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Page 106
... idea of a woman , and not as she was ' . Jonson's unease has been shared by modern critics , although John Carey has recently ar- gued that there is no good reason to regard the poems as about anything other than what they purport to be ...
... idea of a woman , and not as she was ' . Jonson's unease has been shared by modern critics , although John Carey has recently ar- gued that there is no good reason to regard the poems as about anything other than what they purport to be ...
Page 112
... idea of a new beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be ...
... idea of a new beginning is a seductive one , especially when that new beginning is , paradoxically , seen as the re- turn to an imagined purer past state . The hopes centred upon Henry and the distress at his death can thus be ...
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... idea of sexual licence and the associated idea of greater freedom for women were both commonplace accusations against puritans . To royalists , such ideas represent variations of that opposition to tradition which they insisted on ...
... idea of sexual licence and the associated idea of greater freedom for women were both commonplace accusations against puritans . To royalists , such ideas represent variations of that opposition to tradition which they insisted on ...
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