A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... true beauty which revives the reader ( ' O clear - eyed Rector of the holy hill ' ) . Barnabe Barnes is the antithesis of Daniel . He is a frenzied poet , or at least it pleases him to assume airs of dementia , and he escapes servility ...
... true beauty which revives the reader ( ' O clear - eyed Rector of the holy hill ' ) . Barnabe Barnes is the antithesis of Daniel . He is a frenzied poet , or at least it pleases him to assume airs of dementia , and he escapes servility ...
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... true love of yet another couple who succeed in getting married in spite of their parents . When we read this comedy we have to acknowledge that no writer of vaudeville at the present day has more skill or adroitness than Middleton , the ...
... true love of yet another couple who succeed in getting married in spite of their parents . When we read this comedy we have to acknowledge that no writer of vaudeville at the present day has more skill or adroitness than Middleton , the ...
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... true heroism and affection are by no means clothed in all the beauty which our naïve desire for symbols lends to them ; and if we were to be shown these virtues as they really are , few , if any , would recognize them in their mediocre ...
... true heroism and affection are by no means clothed in all the beauty which our naïve desire for symbols lends to them ; and if we were to be shown these virtues as they really are , few , if any , would recognize them in their mediocre ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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