A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresGinn brothers, 1873 - 567 |
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... literary Life ; Wither , Marvell . Dryden : Sketch of his literary Life ; Roscommon , Butler , Davenant . Heroic Plays ; Dryden , Otway , Lee , Shadwell , Settle , Crowne , Behn . Comedy of Manners : Congreve , Jeremy Collier ...
... literary Life ; Wither , Marvell . Dryden : Sketch of his literary Life ; Roscommon , Butler , Davenant . Heroic Plays ; Dryden , Otway , Lee , Shadwell , Settle , Crowne , Behn . Comedy of Manners : Congreve , Jeremy Collier ...
Strona xi
... Literary : Sidney , Dryden , & c .; 3. Artistic : Ruskin , Sir Joshua Reynolds 484-540 APPENDIX . On English Metres INDEX 543-555 557 LIST OF EXTRACTS 566 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . SECTION I. CONTENTS . xi.
... Literary : Sidney , Dryden , & c .; 3. Artistic : Ruskin , Sir Joshua Reynolds 484-540 APPENDIX . On English Metres INDEX 543-555 557 LIST OF EXTRACTS 566 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . PRELIMINARY CHAPTER . SECTION I. CONTENTS . xi.
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... English writers to persist in the use of the vernacular , when interest , fashion , and the torrent of literary example would have led them to adopt the Norman French , it B seems desirable to commence with a brief sketch of that.
... English writers to persist in the use of the vernacular , when interest , fashion , and the torrent of literary example would have led them to adopt the Norman French , it B seems desirable to commence with a brief sketch of that.
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... literary age of Wessex , the eighth century . 6 Several remarkable poems are preserved to us in the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , presently to be described . The chief of these are , the Brunanburgh War - song , and the Elegy on King Edgar ...
... literary age of Wessex , the eighth century . 6 Several remarkable poems are preserved to us in the Anglo - Saxon Chronicle , presently to be described . The chief of these are , the Brunanburgh War - song , and the Elegy on King Edgar ...
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... literary merits as for the light which they throw on the labours of the historian and the antiquary . There exists in the public Record offices an immense body of documents- charters , conveyances , declarations , laws , edicts , & c ...
... literary merits as for the light which they throw on the labours of the historian and the antiquary . There exists in the public Record offices an immense body of documents- charters , conveyances , declarations , laws , edicts , & c ...
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