A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 261
... complete unreality , they serve to prove his statements . The discord between form and substance is the more striking because he poses as a moralist . Yet what shocks us to - day then gave pure enjoyment . Lyly's ingenuity was admired ...
... complete unreality , they serve to prove his statements . The discord between form and substance is the more striking because he poses as a moralist . Yet what shocks us to - day then gave pure enjoyment . Lyly's ingenuity was admired ...
Page 529
... Complete Works , 20 vols . ( Columbia University Press , 1931-41 ) ; Complete Prose ( Yale University Press , 1954- ) ; ed . J. A. St. John , 5 vols . , 1848-53 ; Selected Prose , ed . R. Garnett ( 1894 , excellent ) , ed . M. W. ...
... Complete Works , 20 vols . ( Columbia University Press , 1931-41 ) ; Complete Prose ( Yale University Press , 1954- ) ; ed . J. A. St. John , 5 vols . , 1848-53 ; Selected Prose , ed . R. Garnett ( 1894 , excellent ) , ed . M. W. ...
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... complete , varied , and animated picture of English life in the second half of the eighteenth century . Those he addresses to his friend , Sir Horace Mann , in residence at Florence , are a diary of and commentary upon the political and ...
... complete , varied , and animated picture of English life in the second half of the eighteenth century . Those he addresses to his friend , Sir Horace Mann , in residence at Florence , are a diary of and commentary upon the political and ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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