A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... heart the passion for adventure : Trees rebloom with blossoms , burghs are fair again , Winsome are the wide plains , and the world is gay- All doth only challenge the impassioned heart Of his courage to the voyage , whosoever thus ...
... heart the passion for adventure : Trees rebloom with blossoms , burghs are fair again , Winsome are the wide plains , and the world is gay- All doth only challenge the impassioned heart Of his courage to the voyage , whosoever thus ...
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... heart between duty and passion , reason and desire : such is the theme of Astrophel and Stella . To express feelings which had some analogy with Petrarch's , Sidney had recourse to the sonnet , which had been neglected in England since ...
... heart between duty and passion , reason and desire : such is the theme of Astrophel and Stella . To express feelings which had some analogy with Petrarch's , Sidney had recourse to the sonnet , which had been neglected in England since ...
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... Heart , a tragedy which is full of the melancholy of unhappy love and suffering virtue , is much more har- monious and has a moral much less suspect . The scene of action is laid in Sparta , doubtless in sign of the heroism of tortured ...
... Heart , a tragedy which is full of the melancholy of unhappy love and suffering virtue , is much more har- monious and has a moral much less suspect . The scene of action is laid in Sparta , doubtless in sign of the heroism of tortured ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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