A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... original aim of mere intelligibility to that of measure and beauty : these are sub- jects worthy of the leading place in a work on literature . It will be seen that the first part of the present book does not disregard ideas , or , on ...
... original aim of mere intelligibility to that of measure and beauty : these are sub- jects worthy of the leading place in a work on literature . It will be seen that the first part of the present book does not disregard ideas , or , on ...
Page 100
... original , and his awkward prose , in the archaic dialect of the south - west , is to - day chiefly interesting because his own additions show the changes which had come to Eng- land in the quarter of a century between himself and ...
... original , and his awkward prose , in the archaic dialect of the south - west , is to - day chiefly interesting because his own additions show the changes which had come to Eng- land in the quarter of a century between himself and ...
Page 533
... original writings are examples of pedantry , wordiness and grandiloquence , and also of such vanity and vaingloriousness as cannot easily be matched . Their mere titles are stupefying - Trissotetras , Pantochronocanon , Ekskubalauron ...
... original writings are examples of pedantry , wordiness and grandiloquence , and also of such vanity and vaingloriousness as cannot easily be matched . Their mere titles are stupefying - Trissotetras , Pantochronocanon , Ekskubalauron ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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