Imperfect Apprehensions: Essays in English Literature in Honour of G.A. WilkesGeoffrey Little Challis Press, 1996 - 284 pages |
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... nature : ' Then how when nature calls thee to be gone , What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? ' ( ll . 11-12 ) . The parable of the talents is again secularized . Nature has lent beauty to the youth ; to clear the debt he must ...
... nature : ' Then how when nature calls thee to be gone , What acceptable audit canst thou leave ? ' ( ll . 11-12 ) . The parable of the talents is again secularized . Nature has lent beauty to the youth ; to clear the debt he must ...
Page 135
... nature needs ' ? In both these incidents from the play , humankind asserts its rights over nature and over its own naturalness to gratify what are by definition ' superfluous ' needs ; in both , it is dress that is used to focus the ...
... nature needs ' ? In both these incidents from the play , humankind asserts its rights over nature and over its own naturalness to gratify what are by definition ' superfluous ' needs ; in both , it is dress that is used to focus the ...
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... Nature ' or ' the Face of Nature ' were best allowed to appear unadorned . As ornament , the gold in the first passage is condemned as superficial and ' superfluous ' , like the dress that in the second passage women admire in men ...
... Nature ' or ' the Face of Nature ' were best allowed to appear unadorned . As ornament , the gold in the first passage is condemned as superficial and ' superfluous ' , like the dress that in the second passage women admire in men ...
Contents
Acknowledgements iii | 11 |
Narcissus Called to Account | 18 |
Old Age | 44 |
Copyright | |
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