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... literature of one nation is greatly sharpened by an awareness of its differences from , or similarities to , the literature of others . The pleasure of reading Paradise Lost is made fuller if it is read alongside Homer and Virgil , and ...
... literature of one nation is greatly sharpened by an awareness of its differences from , or similarities to , the literature of others . The pleasure of reading Paradise Lost is made fuller if it is read alongside Homer and Virgil , and ...
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... Literature . I earlier described it as brilliant ; and so it is . But it is brilliance of a poor kind , a bit of special pleading . Q , by a confusion of thought , is decoyed into an attack on his advertised subject by his vigorous ...
... Literature . I earlier described it as brilliant ; and so it is . But it is brilliance of a poor kind , a bit of special pleading . Q , by a confusion of thought , is decoyed into an attack on his advertised subject by his vigorous ...
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... literature , which began with the first letter and the stranger's mud - filled hair , and to which only the angel of the last trumpet will call a halt ( nor even he , if Kipling's heaven is true ) , there seems to be observable an ...
... literature , which began with the first letter and the stranger's mud - filled hair , and to which only the angel of the last trumpet will call a halt ( nor even he , if Kipling's heaven is true ) , there seems to be observable an ...
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