The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1938 |
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... literature existed before the time of Chaucer . Certainly language , more than geography or nationality , determines the name and nature of any great body of literature . Greek literature was native not only to Greece herself but to ...
... literature existed before the time of Chaucer . Certainly language , more than geography or nationality , determines the name and nature of any great body of literature . Greek literature was native not only to Greece herself but to ...
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... literature now count for very little . Above all , with the largely increased supply of papyrus in Greek lands , we now first get cheap production and publication on a large scale . This new semi - literate public was able to make its ...
... literature now count for very little . Above all , with the largely increased supply of papyrus in Greek lands , we now first get cheap production and publication on a large scale . This new semi - literate public was able to make its ...
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... literature is represented by Philo's account of the tribulations of the embassy ( of which he was a member ) of the Alexandrian Jews to the mad emperor Caligula . This is now seen to be an isolated artistic example of a type of partisan ...
... literature is represented by Philo's account of the tribulations of the embassy ( of which he was a member ) of the Alexandrian Jews to the mad emperor Caligula . This is now seen to be an isolated artistic example of a type of partisan ...
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