Literature and CriticismChatto and Windus, 1953 - 190 pages |
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... fear ' , but are given a concrete presentation which powerfully sug- gests the inescapability of fears and of fate and the resultant terror . The line draws much of its force from the paradox contained in the juxtaposition of the ...
... fear ' , but are given a concrete presentation which powerfully sug- gests the inescapability of fears and of fate and the resultant terror . The line draws much of its force from the paradox contained in the juxtaposition of the ...
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... fear ' both with its Elizabethan active meaning of ' frighten ' and with its ordinary passive meaning indicating that the law fears the lawbreakers ; the farmer fears the birds , and sets up the scarecrow to ' fear ' them away . If the ...
... fear ' both with its Elizabethan active meaning of ' frighten ' and with its ordinary passive meaning indicating that the law fears the lawbreakers ; the farmer fears the birds , and sets up the scarecrow to ' fear ' them away . If the ...
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... fear ; and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge ; and I see still , A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart : when valour preys on reason , It eats the sword it fights with . The plea for reason , the ...
... fear ; and in that mood The dove will peck the estridge ; and I see still , A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart : when valour preys on reason , It eats the sword it fights with . The plea for reason , the ...
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