A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... France and of England at the Rena- scence . In consequence , it was more possible in England than in France to refine on the varieties of the stanzas for which France had supplied the model and to multiply their types . Note . For ...
... France and of England at the Rena- scence . In consequence , it was more possible in England than in France to refine on the varieties of the stanzas for which France had supplied the model and to multiply their types . Note . For ...
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... France be purely an accident in history ? It is not an accident . It had been prepared , in the first place , by the more frequent intercourse that had taken place between the two countries and the two courts , since the fourth decade ...
... France be purely an accident in history ? It is not an accident . It had been prepared , in the first place , by the more frequent intercourse that had taken place between the two countries and the two courts , since the fourth decade ...
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... France , whose stormy fate promotes amongst governments , nations , and writers diverse reactions of sympathy , fear , and hostility . In the domains of political theory , philosophy , and litera- ture , England after 1730 is giving to ...
... France , whose stormy fate promotes amongst governments , nations , and writers diverse reactions of sympathy , fear , and hostility . In the domains of political theory , philosophy , and litera- ture , England after 1730 is giving to ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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