A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... shows prodigious valour , but is made prisoner . His ransom is fixed at an enormous sum , and his brother , the king , who hates and fears him , is glad to be rid of him and does not pay it . But Camiola , in a transport of love and ...
... shows prodigious valour , but is made prisoner . His ransom is fixed at an enormous sum , and his brother , the king , who hates and fears him , is glad to be rid of him and does not pay it . But Camiola , in a transport of love and ...
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... shows the artist's power of quiet and clear attention . But Cowper is not a poet whose sole aim is to reproduce the minute notings of his mind . His poetry breathes a sympathy which shows a long association with the world of reality ...
... shows the artist's power of quiet and clear attention . But Cowper is not a poet whose sole aim is to reproduce the minute notings of his mind . His poetry breathes a sympathy which shows a long association with the world of reality ...
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... shows up the little whims of people with no excess of indulgence ; and in some of the figures she has drawn with a rather too pronounced touch of comedy we are reminded of Smollett . In other cases , we think of Fielding , or even of ...
... shows up the little whims of people with no excess of indulgence ; and in some of the figures she has drawn with a rather too pronounced touch of comedy we are reminded of Smollett . In other cases , we think of Fielding , or even of ...
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ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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