A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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Page 435
... style proper to his age , one after another , as well as by its happy bravery , and he blended them in a style entirely his own , which transforms its constituent elements and harmonizes disparities as numerous as though they had been ...
... style proper to his age , one after another , as well as by its happy bravery , and he blended them in a style entirely his own , which transforms its constituent elements and harmonizes disparities as numerous as though they had been ...
Page 736
... style of the most orthodox , advice on the equipment of the pedestrian is set off by mythological episodes . Never ... style , feats in the art of the versifier , no longer stir even a spark of animation in The taste for parody is again ...
... style of the most orthodox , advice on the equipment of the pedestrian is set off by mythological episodes . Never ... style , feats in the art of the versifier , no longer stir even a spark of animation in The taste for parody is again ...
Page 1008
... style on to the plane of full - meant intention and subdued eloquence . On the other hand , literary tradition offers a model to the innovators . In the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Cole- ridge there is the consciousness and the will ...
... style on to the plane of full - meant intention and subdued eloquence . On the other hand , literary tradition offers a model to the innovators . In the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Cole- ridge there is the consciousness and the will ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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