A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Restoration . Empiricism , in which is summed up the most characteristic genius of the English people , be- comes the conscious law governing its existence . In order to place the Restoration , and link it up with a whole , there is ...
... Restoration . Empiricism , in which is summed up the most characteristic genius of the English people , be- comes the conscious law governing its existence . In order to place the Restoration , and link it up with a whole , there is ...
Page 604
... Restoration , have no literary influence independent enough to call for separate study . They only supply certain useful elements in the individual explanation of the dissenters ' in this literature . Thus the Restoration is entirely ...
... Restoration , have no literary influence independent enough to call for separate study . They only supply certain useful elements in the individual explanation of the dissenters ' in this literature . Thus the Restoration is entirely ...
Page 668
... Restoration ... to 1830 , 10 vols . , 1832 ; Hazlitt , Lectures on the English Comic Writers , 1819 ; Harvey - Jellie , Les Sources du théatre anglais de la Restauration , 1906 ; K. M. Lynch , The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy ...
... Restoration ... to 1830 , 10 vols . , 1832 ; Hazlitt , Lectures on the English Comic Writers , 1819 ; Harvey - Jellie , Les Sources du théatre anglais de la Restauration , 1906 ; K. M. Lynch , The Social Mode of Restoration Comedy ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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