Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . ..... Page xv Object , to assist and guide students - Necessity of systematic study -Judicious criticism - True aims and principles of literature- Choice of books - Its difficulties ...
... LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY . PRINCIPLES OF LITERATURE . ..... Page xv Object , to assist and guide students - Necessity of systematic study -Judicious criticism - True aims and principles of literature- Choice of books - Its difficulties ...
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... LECTURE III . THE ENGLISH 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 ...
... LECTURE III . THE ENGLISH 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 ...
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... LECTURE V. LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH 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 ...
... LECTURE V. LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH 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 ...
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... LECTURE VII . LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of ...
... LECTURE VII . LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of ...
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... LECTURE X. TRAGIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY . Contrast of subjects , serious and gay - Tragic poetry - Illustrated in history - Death of the first - born - Clarendon's raising the stand- ard at Nottingham - Moral use of tragic poetry ...
... LECTURE X. TRAGIC AND ELEGIAC POETRY . Contrast of subjects , serious and gay - Tragic poetry - Illustrated in history - Death of the first - born - Clarendon's raising the stand- ard at Nottingham - Moral use of tragic poetry ...
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