A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... cause identified itself , he is led to denounce the most dangerous partisans of this cause , the middle - class Whigs of the town ( The Medal ) . Against his former friend , Shadwell ( MacFlecknoe ) , he had many grievances : a now ...
... cause identified itself , he is led to denounce the most dangerous partisans of this cause , the middle - class Whigs of the town ( The Medal ) . Against his former friend , Shadwell ( MacFlecknoe ) , he had many grievances : a now ...
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... cause . It is by thus losing touch with nature and with reality , rich as it is in immediate meaning and in an inexhaustible wealth of suggestion , that the language of poetry isolates itself from the necessary sources of living ...
... cause . It is by thus losing touch with nature and with reality , rich as it is in immediate meaning and in an inexhaustible wealth of suggestion , that the language of poetry isolates itself from the necessary sources of living ...
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... cause of which the utilitarians were the abstract defenders . The great reviews of the modern type come into being at the same time , and henceforth play a conspicuous part in the moulding of literary opinion , while they exercise a ...
... cause of which the utilitarians were the abstract defenders . The great reviews of the modern type come into being at the same time , and henceforth play a conspicuous part in the moulding of literary opinion , while they exercise a ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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