A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... turn , in these English works . Whenever they are specifically English , they owe it to the very popular character of their public . The problem was to gain the ear of an oppressed , poor , and ignorant people , and more than elsewhere ...
... turn , in these English works . Whenever they are specifically English , they owe it to the very popular character of their public . The problem was to gain the ear of an oppressed , poor , and ignorant people , and more than elsewhere ...
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... turn to opinions and classi- fied men ; Dryden , following his tastes and the deliberate tendencies of his temperament , sought the side of the mon- archy , just as he was soon to embrace a dogmatic faith . Suspicious of Shaftesbury and ...
... turn to opinions and classi- fied men ; Dryden , following his tastes and the deliberate tendencies of his temperament , sought the side of the mon- archy , just as he was soon to embrace a dogmatic faith . Suspicious of Shaftesbury and ...
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... turn , will come to search the heart of his ' egoist , ' he will bring to his task a power of soaring poetry , the sovereign freedom of the comic spirit , whose light rapture will serve to mitigate his rancour . Are there not any of our ...
... turn , will come to search the heart of his ' egoist , ' he will bring to his task a power of soaring poetry , the sovereign freedom of the comic spirit , whose light rapture will serve to mitigate his rancour . Are there not any of our ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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