A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Death of Mr. Addison , is a justly famous poem , sincere in its emotion , which does not dare to be simple , and invests itself in pompous phraseology , but elevates it with the ardour of inspiration ; and the music of his sentiment has ...
... Death of Mr. Addison , is a justly famous poem , sincere in its emotion , which does not dare to be simple , and invests itself in pompous phraseology , but elevates it with the ardour of inspiration ; and the music of his sentiment has ...
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... Death ) . Two years before the publi- cation of the Night Thoughts , Joseph Warton , ' destined with his brother ... death of his wife , inspired The Complaint , or Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality , 1741-5 , the success ...
... Death ) . Two years before the publi- cation of the Night Thoughts , Joseph Warton , ' destined with his brother ... death of his wife , inspired The Complaint , or Night Thoughts on Life , Death , and Immortality , 1741-5 , the success ...
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... Death's Jest Book , is perhaps the most astonishing miracle of that intuitive divination which revived the spirit of the Elizabethan theatre among certain privileged writers of the nineteenth century . And if the daring of the ...
... Death's Jest Book , is perhaps the most astonishing miracle of that intuitive divination which revived the spirit of the Elizabethan theatre among certain privileged writers of the nineteenth century . And if the daring of the ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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