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Electrum Posted 14 years ago
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Let go of

It's not in Shakespeare or King James, as I mentioned. It's not in Paradise Lost or even in Lady Chatterley's Lover.

D.H. Lawrence has:
She dared to http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/query/text.113.172.220.31.18231.14945.html#6365 go everything, all herself and be gone in
  

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electrum It's not in Shakespeare or King James, as I mentioned. H. Lawrence has:She dared to let go everything, all herself and be gone in Did someone say it was in one of those places?

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  • electrum It's not in Shakespeare or King James, as I mentioned.
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  • Lawrence has:She dared to let go everything, all herself and be gone in Did someone say it was in one of those places?
  • Odd for the first post of a thread.
  • Was this intended to be a continuation of some other thread?
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electrumIt's not in Shakespeare or King James, as I mentioned. It's not in Paradise Lost or even in Lady Chatterley's Lover.D.H. Lawrence has:She dared to let go everything, all herself and be gone in
Did someone say it was in one of those places?
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It's a continuation of a previous exchange, in which I was arguing that the expression seemed to me an illiteracy, without historical antecedents, that has somehow gotten accepted as "correct".?
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