Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... LANGUAGE . Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with ...
... LANGUAGE . Page 54 Medium of ideas often forgotten - Witchery of English words— Analysis of good style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with ...
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... Language - English minstrelsy - Percy's Reliques -Sir Walter Scott - Wilson - Christian hymns and chaunts- Conversion of King Edwin - Martial ballads - Lockhart- Spanish ballads - Ticknor's great work - Edom of Gordon- Dramatic power of ...
... Language - English minstrelsy - Percy's Reliques -Sir Walter Scott - Wilson - Christian hymns and chaunts- Conversion of King Edwin - Martial ballads - Lockhart- Spanish ballads - Ticknor's great work - Edom of Gordon- Dramatic power of ...
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... language . It will be farther borne in mind that these Lectures are printed exactly as written , with scarcely a verbal altera- tion , and no change or modification of opinion . He wrote from a full mind , often with great rapidity ...
... language . It will be farther borne in mind that these Lectures are printed exactly as written , with scarcely a verbal altera- tion , and no change or modification of opinion . He wrote from a full mind , often with great rapidity ...
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... language as will make it part of his thoughts and feelings , has a claim for guidance and counsel upon those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may win a quick and kindly response , for the sense ...
... language as will make it part of his thoughts and feelings , has a claim for guidance and counsel upon those whose duty it is to fit themselves to bestow it . It is a claim that well may win a quick and kindly response , for the sense ...
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... language . What ( it may be asked ) is Literature ? This is a question not enough thought of ; the answer to it is important , but by no means , I think , difficult , when once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books ...
... language . What ( it may be asked ) is Literature ? This is a question not enough thought of ; the answer to it is important , but by no means , I think , difficult , when once we see the necessity of making the discrimination . Books ...
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