A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... Society ( xliv ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , xxxi , xlvii ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , i ) . Extracts in Morris and Skeat , Specimens , vol . ii . date is ...
... Society ( xliv ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , xxxi , xlvii ) . Ed . by Skeat for the Early English Text Society ( extra series , i ) . Extracts in Morris and Skeat , Specimens , vol . ii . date is ...
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... Society for the advance- ment of science ( 1662 ) is quite a natural act.1 Its object is to bring into touch with ... Society to physical researches ; Samuel Butler pens a satire ( The Elephant in the Moon ) against one of them . But the ...
... Society for the advance- ment of science ( 1662 ) is quite a natural act.1 Its object is to bring into touch with ... Society to physical researches ; Samuel Butler pens a satire ( The Elephant in the Moon ) against one of them . But the ...
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... society - a society which above all desired to live . 2. Wordsworth . - Wordsworth's creative originality among English poets remains closely linked to his intimate contact with the revolutionary faith . A spiritual bond was thus formed ...
... society - a society which above all desired to live . 2. Wordsworth . - Wordsworth's creative originality among English poets remains closely linked to his intimate contact with the revolutionary faith . A spiritual bond was thus formed ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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