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Page ix
... mind under pressure from disintegration and the threat of chaos . With this aim in mind I have shown how words are made to work under Spenser's hand and how new concepts find expression in pun or name conceit . ( The reader who has ...
... mind under pressure from disintegration and the threat of chaos . With this aim in mind I have shown how words are made to work under Spenser's hand and how new concepts find expression in pun or name conceit . ( The reader who has ...
Page 77
... mind and of the individual mind . ( " If the eye be single the body is full of light . " ) From unity or 1 , which is single , proceeds diversity or more - than - oneness , which can be doubleness or duplicity or multiplicity of ...
... mind and of the individual mind . ( " If the eye be single the body is full of light . " ) From unity or 1 , which is single , proceeds diversity or more - than - oneness , which can be doubleness or duplicity or multiplicity of ...
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... mind of the poet . ) But it is chosen and used of set purpose to direct the receiving mind to the value of what is being expressed . Again and again in The Faerie Queene an epithet , a simile or metaphor delivers the tacit message ...
... mind of the poet . ) But it is chosen and used of set purpose to direct the receiving mind to the value of what is being expressed . Again and again in The Faerie Queene an epithet , a simile or metaphor delivers the tacit message ...
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