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Page 101
... conventional image of a star . Her petulance is conveyed by turning this conventional image into a conceit : the star becomes a falling star , a meteor with the brightness and destructiveness of Lightning , frightening him and Tempting ...
... conventional image of a star . Her petulance is conveyed by turning this conventional image into a conceit : the star becomes a falling star , a meteor with the brightness and destructiveness of Lightning , frightening him and Tempting ...
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... conventional epithets , has an eighteenth - century texture . There is a lack of harmony here : the scene as described in this conventional way does not adequately account for the highly individual and significant effects it has had in ...
... conventional epithets , has an eighteenth - century texture . There is a lack of harmony here : the scene as described in this conventional way does not adequately account for the highly individual and significant effects it has had in ...
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... conventionally romantic melancholy , represented by the conventional emblems of the opening stanza . The yielding of oneself to a mood that sorts with nightshade and yew and death - moth dulls the sensibility ; but Keats does not want ...
... conventionally romantic melancholy , represented by the conventional emblems of the opening stanza . The yielding of oneself to a mood that sorts with nightshade and yew and death - moth dulls the sensibility ; but Keats does not want ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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