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Page 97
Tenderness and protection for the girl , affection and . physical love for her , pride in paternity , happy unity in defying the outside world - these notes are all sounded , and they are so deftly harmonized that they sound like a ...
Tenderness and protection for the girl , affection and . physical love for her , pride in paternity , happy unity in defying the outside world - these notes are all sounded , and they are so deftly harmonized that they sound like a ...
Page 254
The picture of the jovial interior is expanded , in a blaze of happy sympathy , into a celebration of Tam's mood . The double rhymes ( ' happy ' and ' nappy ' ; ' treasure ' and ' pleasure ' ) help to give the impres- sion of a grand ...
The picture of the jovial interior is expanded , in a blaze of happy sympathy , into a celebration of Tam's mood . The double rhymes ( ' happy ' and ' nappy ' ; ' treasure ' and ' pleasure ' ) help to give the impres- sion of a grand ...
Page 281
etched - in country setting , the swinging lilt of the chorus ( with its rhythm of the reel ) , the happy , assured quality of the double rhymes , and the gradual movement , through a description of the successive phases of the action ...
etched - in country setting , the swinging lilt of the chorus ( with its rhythm of the reel ) , the happy , assured quality of the double rhymes , and the gradual movement , through a description of the successive phases of the action ...
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