A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1929 - 1424 pages |
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... reign as the other are numerous - Shakespeare , Daniel , Drayton , Chap- man and others , and to attribute much importance to the change of sovereign would be puerile . Yet the division has the advantage that it marks an evolution which ...
... reign as the other are numerous - Shakespeare , Daniel , Drayton , Chap- man and others , and to attribute much importance to the change of sovereign would be puerile . Yet the division has the advantage that it marks an evolution which ...
Page 436
... reign , hardly connected with each other and without a central figure . Henry IV . and Henry V. also resume whole reigns , but they include very search- ing character - drawing and are persistently dominated by one personage . This ...
... reign , hardly connected with each other and without a central figure . Henry IV . and Henry V. also resume whole reigns , but they include very search- ing character - drawing and are persistently dominated by one personage . This ...
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... reign of Charles II . is , undoubtedly , the Paradise Lost of Milton ; and this poem , as imposing as it is solitary , is foreign to the move- ment surrounding it . In the same way , the Pilgrim's Progress of Bunyan seems to belong to ...
... reign of Charles II . is , undoubtedly , the Paradise Lost of Milton ; and this poem , as imposing as it is solitary , is foreign to the move- ment surrounding it . In the same way , the Pilgrim's Progress of Bunyan seems to belong to ...
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BOOK II | 67 |
THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES 13501516 | 100 |
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