A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1929 - 1424 pages |
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... theme ; to arrange his recitative into paragraphs which take the place of stanzas , and to construct each sentence ... themes of older English poetry . The taste of the crowd had altered but little towards the " ballads " or poems of ...
... theme ; to arrange his recitative into paragraphs which take the place of stanzas , and to construct each sentence ... themes of older English poetry . The taste of the crowd had altered but little towards the " ballads " or poems of ...
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... theme , but with the added interest that it seeks to portray the inner life of the mind , and thus affords even in the matter itself the possibility of a lyricism which will be new and psychological . Beattie proposes as his subject the ...
... theme , but with the added interest that it seeks to portray the inner life of the mind , and thus affords even in the matter itself the possibility of a lyricism which will be new and psychological . Beattie proposes as his subject the ...
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... theme - the magnetism which subjugates the force of tenderness , be it humble or proud , in the love of woman , to the commanding radiance of a manly personality . This inevitable theme , in which we touch upon the secret of Charlotte ...
... theme - the magnetism which subjugates the force of tenderness , be it humble or proud , in the love of woman , to the commanding radiance of a manly personality . This inevitable theme , in which we touch upon the secret of Charlotte ...
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BOOK II | 67 |
THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES 13501516 | 100 |
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