William Empson
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English literary critic and poet (1906–1984)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 30
Top works
- 50 Years in the Church of Rome
- The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
- The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
- The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
- The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal
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- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,950x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,827x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,551x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x
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Quotes
- “An ambiguity, in ordinary speech, means something very pronounced, and as a rule witty or deceitful....any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language.”
- “Man, as the prying housemaid of the soul.”
- “All those large dreams by which men long live wellAre magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.”
- “Feign then what's by a decent tact believedAnd act that state is only so conceived,And build an edifice of formFor house where phantoms may keep warm.”
- “There is a supreme God in the ethnological section; ... His smooth wood creeps with all the creeds of the world.”
- “Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes. Then, being clogged with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.”
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