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Page 131
... suggests an unnatural unity to be set against a natural social unity of a traditional kind , and it is this which lies beneath much of Cleveland's violent rage . A strongly hostile reaction to the aspirations and actions of parliamen ...
... suggests an unnatural unity to be set against a natural social unity of a traditional kind , and it is this which lies beneath much of Cleveland's violent rage . A strongly hostile reaction to the aspirations and actions of parliamen ...
Page 169
... suggests something of the handicap under which the Stuart crisis developed . Although Drayton's poem gains much from his feeling for how the past takes toll of the present , he rarely uses the present as explicit contrast , and he does ...
... suggests something of the handicap under which the Stuart crisis developed . Although Drayton's poem gains much from his feeling for how the past takes toll of the present , he rarely uses the present as explicit contrast , and he does ...
Page 177
... suggests that Davenant does not have anything he really wants to write about , and this is the final indictment of the enterprise , because the material of the poem might have been used to some purpose . Gladish , somewhat nervously ...
... suggests that Davenant does not have anything he really wants to write about , and this is the final indictment of the enterprise , because the material of the poem might have been used to some purpose . Gladish , somewhat nervously ...
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