The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 páginas |
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... opinion among diverse critics , both as to the selection of names to be commemorated , and as to the comparative prominence due to different authors , and works , and kinds of composition . It is enough for me to say , that , in these ...
... opinion among diverse critics , both as to the selection of names to be commemorated , and as to the comparative prominence due to different authors , and works , and kinds of composition . It is enough for me to say , that , in these ...
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... Opinions and Feelings - Relapse into Monasticism - Speci- mens . - 3 . Stephen Hawes Analysis of his Pastime of Pleasure . - 4 . The Latest Metrical Romances - The Earliest Ballads - Chevy Chase - Robin Hood . - 5 . Prose- Literary ...
... Opinions and Feelings - Relapse into Monasticism - Speci- mens . - 3 . Stephen Hawes Analysis of his Pastime of Pleasure . - 4 . The Latest Metrical Romances - The Earliest Ballads - Chevy Chase - Robin Hood . - 5 . Prose- Literary ...
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... Opinions - Temple's Essays . - POETRY . 5. Dramas - Their Character - French Influences - Dryden's Plays - Tragedies of Lee , Otway , and Southerne - The Prose Comedies - Their Moral Foulness . - 6 . Poe- try not Dramatic - Its Didactic ...
... Opinions - Temple's Essays . - POETRY . 5. Dramas - Their Character - French Influences - Dryden's Plays - Tragedies of Lee , Otway , and Southerne - The Prose Comedies - Their Moral Foulness . - 6 . Poe- try not Dramatic - Its Didactic ...
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... opinions in regard to them produced most of those civil broils , in which our kings , our ciergy , our aristocracy , and our people , played parts , and engaged in combinations , so shifting and so perplexing . At length , under the ...
... opinions in regard to them produced most of those civil broils , in which our kings , our ciergy , our aristocracy , and our people , played parts , and engaged in combinations , so shifting and so perplexing . At length , under the ...
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... of the art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... of the art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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