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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... possessing higher pretensions , and imparting fuller information . It is for others to decide whether , in ushering young readers into the field of Literary History , I have been able to make the study interesting or attractive to them ...
... possessing higher pretensions , and imparting fuller information . It is for others to decide whether , in ushering young readers into the field of Literary History , I have been able to make the study interesting or attractive to them ...
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... possessed it derived a great part of their literary knowledge from oral communication . Information thus impeded could not be generally accessible ; the few who attained it learned with difficulty , and , with some signal exceptions ...
... possessed it derived a great part of their literary knowledge from oral communication . Information thus impeded could not be generally accessible ; the few who attained it learned with difficulty , and , with some signal exceptions ...
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... possessed large parts of the country . These , with their scanty stock of literary remains , must receive some attention at present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic ...
... possessed large parts of the country . These , with their scanty stock of literary remains , must receive some attention at present ; although they will be left out of view when we pass to those later periods , in which the Germanic ...
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... possessing a bardic and legendary character , and said to belong to the eleventh century . The poems which bear the name of Ossian are professedly celebrations , by an eye - witness , of events occurring in the third century . But ...
... possessing a bardic and legendary character , and said to belong to the eleventh century . The poems which bear the name of Ossian are professedly celebrations , by an eye - witness , of events occurring in the third century . But ...
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... possessed . But the literature which thus neither excites by images of bar- barism , nor soothes by the refinements of art , possesses legitimate claims to respect and admiration , in the elevation and far - sighted- ness of the aims ...
... possessed . But the literature which thus neither excites by images of bar- barism , nor soothes by the refinements of art , possesses legitimate claims to respect and admiration , in the elevation and far - sighted- ness of the aims ...
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