Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 Seiten |
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... style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with Gibbon - Daniel's Lament - Exten- sion of English language - French dominion in America - Lan ...
... style difficult - The power of words - Our duty to the English language - Lord Bacon's idea of Latin - Milton- Hume's expostulation with Gibbon - Daniel's Lament - Exten- sion of English language - French dominion in America - Lan ...
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... style - Lord Mahon - Macaulay's History - Historical romance- -Waverley Novels - The pulpit- Sydney Smith - Manning - Poetry of the early part of the cen- tury - Bowles and Rogers - Campbell - Coleridge's Christabel- Lay of the Last ...
... style - Lord Mahon - Macaulay's History - Historical romance- -Waverley Novels - The pulpit- Sydney Smith - Manning - Poetry of the early part of the cen- tury - Bowles and Rogers - Campbell - Coleridge's Christabel- Lay of the Last ...
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... style— Irish Bulls - Rip Van Winkle - Sydney Smith and Doctor Parr --Humour in old tragedies - Lear and the fool - Hamlet and the grave - digger - Irony - Macbeth and the doctor - Anne Bo- leyn - Bishop Latimer - Fuller - Dean Swift and ...
... style— Irish Bulls - Rip Van Winkle - Sydney Smith and Doctor Parr --Humour in old tragedies - Lear and the fool - Hamlet and the grave - digger - Irony - Macbeth and the doctor - Anne Bo- leyn - Bishop Latimer - Fuller - Dean Swift and ...
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... styles and modes of things , and by its pride also , for it is forever meddling , mending , accumulating , and self - exult- ing ; its eye is always upon itself , and it tests all things Lamb's Prose Works , vol . 3 , p . 45. " Detached ...
... styles and modes of things , and by its pride also , for it is forever meddling , mending , accumulating , and self - exult- ing ; its eye is always upon itself , and it tests all things Lamb's Prose Works , vol . 3 , p . 45. " Detached ...
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... style by that untrans- lateable term " Humour " —that kindly perception of the ridiculous which is full of gentleness and sympathy . It is a healthful element : it chastens the dangerous faculty of Wit , turning its envenomed shafts ...
... style by that untrans- lateable term " Humour " —that kindly perception of the ridiculous which is full of gentleness and sympathy . It is a healthful element : it chastens the dangerous faculty of Wit , turning its envenomed shafts ...
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