A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... moral lesson to the forefront . Already this tendency was more marked in the English than in continental nations . The English were beginning to take a national pride in their seriousness , as a quality which distinguished them from the ...
... moral lesson to the forefront . Already this tendency was more marked in the English than in continental nations . The English were beginning to take a national pride in their seriousness , as a quality which distinguished them from the ...
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... moral reform of individual life , in a more cordial good - fellowship ; and behind these diverse aspirations , it is sentiment that we see or divine ; it is a deep and hidden move- ment of the inner rhythm , the working of which is made ...
... moral reform of individual life , in a more cordial good - fellowship ; and behind these diverse aspirations , it is sentiment that we see or divine ; it is a deep and hidden move- ment of the inner rhythm , the working of which is made ...
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... moral pitch at which the average mind can live only in ex- ceptional moments . The Romanticism of the poets is not out of harmony with the general attitude of minds ; there is in these , towards an extreme intensity of imaginative ...
... moral pitch at which the average mind can live only in ex- ceptional moments . The Romanticism of the poets is not out of harmony with the general attitude of minds ; there is in these , towards an extreme intensity of imaginative ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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