A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 426
... give Nature all : thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion . And that he Who ... gives this regulating power to wisdom 426 [ 1590 FLOWERING OF THE RENASCENCE.
... give Nature all : thy art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the poet's matter nature be , His art doth give the fashion . And that he Who ... gives this regulating power to wisdom 426 [ 1590 FLOWERING OF THE RENASCENCE.
Page 594
... gives way abruptly under the stress of a sudden conviction , just as it gives way to superior force . Reason , good sense , and the practicality of a people held in check for twenty years , break down the weakened dike of Puritan ...
... gives way abruptly under the stress of a sudden conviction , just as it gives way to superior force . Reason , good sense , and the practicality of a people held in check for twenty years , break down the weakened dike of Puritan ...
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... gives way to a bitter indignation ; as in the case of Swift , his reprobation seems to ignore all bounds , and develops into an arraignment of humanity as a whole . No longer differentiating between a self - interested humility on the ...
... gives way to a bitter indignation ; as in the case of Swift , his reprobation seems to ignore all bounds , and develops into an arraignment of humanity as a whole . No longer differentiating between a self - interested humility on the ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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