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... less clear - headed on the problem than Sir Philip Sidney or John Milton , he is considerably more clear - headed than the Philistines who see no problem - and far less muddled than many of his contemporaries who were content either to ...
... less clear - headed on the problem than Sir Philip Sidney or John Milton , he is considerably more clear - headed than the Philistines who see no problem - and far less muddled than many of his contemporaries who were content either to ...
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... less unusual manner of speaking , less unlike the ordin- ary . Perhaps the chorus should speak more loftily , since as Aristotle says in the Problems it stands as guardian , so to speak , inactive and apart . For the same reason the ...
... less unusual manner of speaking , less unlike the ordin- ary . Perhaps the chorus should speak more loftily , since as Aristotle says in the Problems it stands as guardian , so to speak , inactive and apart . For the same reason the ...
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... less appropriate to all the others than to the heroic poet . And if Fracastoro meant only him , he did not perhaps go too far wrong in assigning him the idea of the beautiful as his goal.1 But since ideas are many , and that of ...
... less appropriate to all the others than to the heroic poet . And if Fracastoro meant only him , he did not perhaps go too far wrong in assigning him the idea of the beautiful as his goal.1 But since ideas are many , and that of ...
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