The Characters of Love: A Study in the Literature of PersonalityConstable, 1960 - 295 pages |
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Page 14
... fact only coining another despotic formula and recording a preference for a particular possibility in life and a particular effect in art . And yet romance has always seemed to invite its opposite , and there is logic in the fact that ...
... fact only coining another despotic formula and recording a preference for a particular possibility in life and a particular effect in art . And yet romance has always seemed to invite its opposite , and there is logic in the fact that ...
Page 87
... fact that all men , himself included , behave badly to women , and he honours them all the more because they are victimized . Through him Chaucer implies , with his usual subtlety , that even at its most admirably civilized the courtly ...
... fact that all men , himself included , behave badly to women , and he honours them all the more because they are victimized . Through him Chaucer implies , with his usual subtlety , that even at its most admirably civilized the courtly ...
Page 88
... fact in Boccaccio with a translator's licence to be vague which also adds some- thing of the uncertainty of real life , in which it is as rare to know all the facts about someone as it is to be entirely right about their character ...
... fact in Boccaccio with a translator's licence to be vague which also adds some- thing of the uncertainty of real life , in which it is as rare to know all the facts about someone as it is to be entirely right about their character ...
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