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While reading the essay The Metaphysical Poets by Eliot I found this line:
We may find it in some of the best line of Johnson himself (The Vanity of Human Wishes):
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where the effect is due to a contrast of ideas, different in degree but same in principle, as that which Johnson mildly reprehended.
Here's the link of the essay.
www.uwyo.edu/numimage/eliot_metaphysical_poets.htm
Could you please help me with the usage of 'as' in the italicised part? Does it collocate with 'same' (of same in principle) or with that which (if with the latter, I have not a bit of idea what kind of structure it is and what it does mean).
Please help!!
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zany banana 409 where the effect is due to a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle, as that which Johnson mildly reprehended. zany banana 409 Does it collocate with 'same' Yes. The contrast of ideas is, in principle, the same as the contrast of ideas which Johnson mildly reprehended.
- zany banana 409 where the effect is due to a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle, as that which Johnson mildly reprehended.
- zany banana 409 Does it collocate with 'same' Yes.
- The contrast of ideas is, in principle, the same as the contrast of ideas which Johnson mildly reprehended.
- Personally I do not feel that the punctuation in the original sentence is entirely logical.
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zany banana 409where the effect is due to a contrast of ideas, different in degree but the same in principle, as that which Johnson mildly reprehended.
zany banana 409Does it collocate with 'same'
Yes.
The contrast of ideas is, in principle, the same as the contrast of ide
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