A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... lively and well turned and have a courtliness ; there is choiceness in his tone and mannerisms , originality in his subjects , even grace and fancy in his conceptions ; and his work , exactly because of its artifice and its pedantry ...
... lively and well turned and have a courtliness ; there is choiceness in his tone and mannerisms , originality in his subjects , even grace and fancy in his conceptions ; and his work , exactly because of its artifice and its pedantry ...
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... lively dialogue , her adumbration of feminism , her relative decency of bearing , is an original figure in the litera- ture of the time ; and The Country Wit ( 1676 ) , Sir Courtly Nice ( 1685 ) , of John Crowne , where the invention is ...
... lively dialogue , her adumbration of feminism , her relative decency of bearing , is an original figure in the litera- ture of the time ; and The Country Wit ( 1676 ) , Sir Courtly Nice ( 1685 ) , of John Crowne , where the invention is ...
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... lively and attractive colouring ; the heroine of Amelia is truly touch- ing ; in these personages , the invention of Fielding has spent itself without following any other law than that of adhering to the organic interrelations between ...
... lively and attractive colouring ; the heroine of Amelia is truly touch- ing ; in these personages , the invention of Fielding has spent itself without following any other law than that of adhering to the organic interrelations between ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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