A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1935 - 1448 pages |
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... classical ideal in litera- ture . To study , in a broader sense , the elements out of which this unity is accomplished , those which accept to enter therein and those which refuse , is to study the classical age itself . From one point ...
... classical ideal in litera- ture . To study , in a broader sense , the elements out of which this unity is accomplished , those which accept to enter therein and those which refuse , is to study the classical age itself . From one point ...
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... classical rhythm of thought and of verse holds full possession of him , some transitory moments will remind us that beneath the writer there is the man , and that his temperament is not simple . No writer ever showed a temperament of ...
... classical rhythm of thought and of verse holds full possession of him , some transitory moments will remind us that beneath the writer there is the man , and that his temperament is not simple . No writer ever showed a temperament of ...
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... classical poetry often redeems the coldness of its inspiration . It is to be found even in the likeable though flaccid talent of Ambrose Philips ; and his epistle To the Earl of Dorset describes the effects of a Danish winter with a ...
... classical poetry often redeems the coldness of its inspiration . It is to be found even in the likeable though flaccid talent of Ambrose Philips ; and his epistle To the Earl of Dorset describes the effects of a Danish winter with a ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
TO 1578 | 217 |
AND THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATESGascoigne | 228 |
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