A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... seems immediately to have made him the accredited purveyor of court plays . His first play was indeed performed at Black- friars Theatre before it was given in the queen's presence on 31st December 1581 , but it seems to have been ...
... seems immediately to have made him the accredited purveyor of court plays . His first play was indeed performed at Black- friars Theatre before it was given in the queen's presence on 31st December 1581 , but it seems to have been ...
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... seems , at that pitch . On other occasions his doctrine dwells on the con- templation , the analysis of beautiful forms ; or even he brings into it an element which alters and amends it . Marius the Epicurean , the novel in which most ...
... seems , at that pitch . On other occasions his doctrine dwells on the con- templation , the analysis of beautiful forms ; or even he brings into it an element which alters and amends it . Marius the Epicurean , the novel in which most ...
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... seems to have been given up . On this point , another foreign influence has replaced that of Flaubert . The more concrete and , so to say , instantaneous art of the Russian novelists has offered English writers a model better adapted to ...
... seems to have been given up . On this point , another foreign influence has replaced that of Flaubert . The more concrete and , so to say , instantaneous art of the Russian novelists has offered English writers a model better adapted to ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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