Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... CENTURY . Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII .-- Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars— -Wyatt and Surrey - The son- net naturalized in English ...
... CENTURY . Page 121 Dawn of letters a false illustration - Intellectual gloom from Ed- ward III . to Henry VIII .-- Chaucer to Spenser - Caxton and the art of printing - Civil wars— -Wyatt and Surrey - The son- net naturalized in English ...
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... CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this ... CENTURY . Literature of our own times - Influence of political and social re- lations - The historic relations of ...
... CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this ... CENTURY . Literature of our own times - Influence of political and social re- lations - The historic relations of ...
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... century . I have adverted to this subject , because the term de- tracts from that which is the prime characteristic of lite- rature - its universality - its appeal to man as man . In this simple , elementary principle , we may unfold ...
... century . I have adverted to this subject , because the term de- tracts from that which is the prime characteristic of lite- rature - its universality - its appeal to man as man . In this simple , elementary principle , we may unfold ...
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... century , and of Addison's or Steele's in the " Spectator " and the ' Tatler , " in the early part of it , he will find his judg- ment enlarged by seeing how those generations dealt with this same branch of letters . Travelling back a ...
... century , and of Addison's or Steele's in the " Spectator " and the ' Tatler , " in the early part of it , he will find his judg- ment enlarged by seeing how those generations dealt with this same branch of letters . Travelling back a ...
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... century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet ...
... century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the poets . One meets perpetually with a confident partiality for some poet ...
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