A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... become very conscious within him , Dryden condemns the personal element in satire . Lam- poons , such as are written so profusely , he says , are a danger- ous weapon , and he himself of set purpose has disdained to reply when he was ...
... become very conscious within him , Dryden condemns the personal element in satire . Lam- poons , such as are written so profusely , he says , are a danger- ous weapon , and he himself of set purpose has disdained to reply when he was ...
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... become its zealous supporters ; they will even uphold it against the first onslaughts of Romanticism . But they only adapt themselves to it by drawing it , as it were , to them . They have their deep - rooted needs , their specific ...
... become its zealous supporters ; they will even uphold it against the first onslaughts of Romanticism . But they only adapt themselves to it by drawing it , as it were , to them . They have their deep - rooted needs , their specific ...
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... becomes more marked . But whilst the classical age was stable enough , one can henceforth feel a progress , a ... become en- croaching ; the balance is already turning in their favour ; and one has no difficulty in foreseeing that ...
... becomes more marked . But whilst the classical age was stable enough , one can henceforth feel a progress , a ... become en- croaching ; the balance is already turning in their favour ; and one has no difficulty in foreseeing that ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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