Literature and CriticismChatto and Windus, 1953 - 190 pages |
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... bounds divide . Dryden's aim in this celebrated couplet was to make a neat formulation of an interesting psychological ' truth ' . He knew well the effectiveness of the rhyming couplet for such a purpose , and he produced in this Rhyme.
... bounds divide . Dryden's aim in this celebrated couplet was to make a neat formulation of an interesting psychological ' truth ' . He knew well the effectiveness of the rhyming couplet for such a purpose , and he produced in this Rhyme.
Page 46
... truth . The last three lines of the poem have the same sort of inexorability : ' Yet shee Will be False ' ; and the very last phrase , just a common- place colloquial expression , is given a surprising and most effective importance by ...
... truth . The last three lines of the poem have the same sort of inexorability : ' Yet shee Will be False ' ; and the very last phrase , just a common- place colloquial expression , is given a surprising and most effective importance by ...
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... truth , paradoxical to ' nor- mal opinion ' , of the last line : the profound truth that death is not the antithesis of life but a part of it ; man has mentally created death , for animals it doesn't exist . The conclusion , in both ...
... truth , paradoxical to ' nor- mal opinion ' , of the last line : the profound truth that death is not the antithesis of life but a part of it ; man has mentally created death , for animals it doesn't exist . The conclusion , in both ...
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