Lectures on English Literature, from Chaucer to TennysonClaxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1869 - 411 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- Ifume'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- Ifume'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 are limited in their uses , for they hold their intercourse with something narrower than human nature , while that which is literature has an au- dience - chamber capacious as the soul of man - enduring as his immortality . It ...
... language are limited in their uses , for they hold their intercourse with something narrower than human nature , while that which is literature has an au- dience - chamber capacious as the soul of man - enduring as his immortality . It ...
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... language , on the birth - the life - the undying destiny of the soul of man . I have dwelt upon this prine quality of literature , its universality , because , simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to ...
... language , on the birth - the life - the undying destiny of the soul of man . I have dwelt upon this prine quality of literature , its universality , because , simple as it is , it is practically lost sight of , in the propensity to ...
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