ELH., Volume 72Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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... words must com- municate ideas swiftly , at roughly the speed of thought , he reduced all words to nouns or verbs . 19 Horne Tooke , who began writing his book while imprisoned for sedition , took a radical approach to language , in ...
... words must com- municate ideas swiftly , at roughly the speed of thought , he reduced all words to nouns or verbs . 19 Horne Tooke , who began writing his book while imprisoned for sedition , took a radical approach to language , in ...
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... words cynically wielded by " hoary- headed hypocrites " ( 4.203 ) : " They have three words : -well tyrants know their use , / Well pay them for the loan , with usury / Torn from a bleeding world ! God , Hell , and Heaven " ( 4.208-10 ) ...
... words cynically wielded by " hoary- headed hypocrites " ( 4.203 ) : " They have three words : -well tyrants know their use , / Well pay them for the loan , with usury / Torn from a bleeding world ! God , Hell , and Heaven " ( 4.208-10 ) ...
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... words are but the signs of ideas . " Nevertheless , his hope for the Dictionary is that it will approximate the heavenly task of making words “ permanent , like the things which they denote . " Johnson , preface to A Dictionary of ...
... words are but the signs of ideas . " Nevertheless , his hope for the Dictionary is that it will approximate the heavenly task of making words “ permanent , like the things which they denote . " Johnson , preface to A Dictionary of ...
Contents
Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester | 553 |
Shelleys Uncertain Heaven | 577 |
Everyday War | 605 |
Copyright | |
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