A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 243
... already to be called Shakespearian . Cambyses is not always on the stage , but gives place to buffoons . We can discern , in the raw , the expedients of a playwright who , chiefly by varying his scenes , appeals to a heterogeneous ...
... already to be called Shakespearian . Cambyses is not always on the stage , but gives place to buffoons . We can discern , in the raw , the expedients of a playwright who , chiefly by varying his scenes , appeals to a heterogeneous ...
Page 249
... already enriched Chaucer's poetry brought a wealth of splendour to sixteenth - century England . The English character was , however , already at this time too definite and too insular merely to reflect a foreign country . The ...
... already enriched Chaucer's poetry brought a wealth of splendour to sixteenth - century England . The English character was , however , already at this time too definite and too insular merely to reflect a foreign country . The ...
Page 800
... already visible in the time when Pope and Defoe , Bolingbroke and Shaftesbury were writing , continues and only becomes more marked . But whilst the classical age was stable enough , one can henceforth feel a progress , a movement at ...
... already visible in the time when Pope and Defoe , Bolingbroke and Shaftesbury were writing , continues and only becomes more marked . But whilst the classical age was stable enough , one can henceforth feel a progress , a movement at ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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