Literature and CriticismChatto and Windus, 1953 - 190 pages |
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... phrase , just a common- place colloquial expression , is given a surprising and most effective importance by the comma after ' two ' , and by the fact that ' three ' is the rhyming word ; the cynical off - handedness ( in this context ) ...
... phrase , just a common- place colloquial expression , is given a surprising and most effective importance by the comma after ' two ' , and by the fact that ' three ' is the rhyming word ; the cynical off - handedness ( in this context ) ...
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... phrase depend- ing so much on movement of the lips ; the phrase is finely suggestive of lack of solidity , and it is set off by , as it in turn sets off , the firm roundness and hard cer- tainty of ' He knows death to the bone ' , where ...
... phrase depend- ing so much on movement of the lips ; the phrase is finely suggestive of lack of solidity , and it is set off by , as it in turn sets off , the firm roundness and hard cer- tainty of ' He knows death to the bone ' , where ...
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... phrase which is the more telling for being seemingly off - hand ; seemingly , but it will be noticed that its ' b ' emphasizes ' barren ' - a good example of alliteration functioning unobtrusively . ' Glutton ' is the more forcefully ...
... phrase which is the more telling for being seemingly off - hand ; seemingly , but it will be noticed that its ' b ' emphasizes ' barren ' - a good example of alliteration functioning unobtrusively . ' Glutton ' is the more forcefully ...
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