A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... England almost all the characteristics which it had throughout Europe : thought was liberated and broadened so that it broke its scholastic framework ; destiny and morals ceased to be the matter only of dogma and became problematical ...
... England almost all the characteristics which it had throughout Europe : thought was liberated and broadened so that it broke its scholastic framework ; destiny and morals ceased to be the matter only of dogma and became problematical ...
Page 201
... England was faithful to the cult of the past longer than the Continent . The fact is explained by the continu- ance of popular influences . While in France the Renascence was eminently aristocratic , in England it was always regardful ...
... England was faithful to the cult of the past longer than the Continent . The fact is explained by the continu- ance of popular influences . While in France the Renascence was eminently aristocratic , in England it was always regardful ...
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... England's growing consciousness of strength , her pride of prosperity , the spirit of adventure which animated her ... England with the Continent by subjecting her to Rome . If the English still conceived of union with Europe , they ...
... England's growing consciousness of strength , her pride of prosperity , the spirit of adventure which animated her ... England with the Continent by subjecting her to Rome . If the English still conceived of union with Europe , they ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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