The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth of the English LanguageD.Appleton & Company, 1862 - 413 Seiten |
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... feeling , I have not shrunk from availing myself freely of the op portunities , furnished profusely by a theme so noble , for endeavour .. ing to prompt active thinking and to awaken refined and elevating sentiments . I have frequently ...
... feeling , I have not shrunk from availing myself freely of the op portunities , furnished profusely by a theme so noble , for endeavour .. ing to prompt active thinking and to awaken refined and elevating sentiments . I have frequently ...
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... Feelings - Relapse into Monasticism - Speci- mens . - 3 . Stephen Hawes Analysis of his Pastime of Pleasure . - 4 . The Latest Metrical Romances - The Earliest Ballads - Chevy Chase - Robin Hood . - 5 . Prose- Literary Dearth - Patrons ...
... Feelings - Relapse into Monasticism - Speci- mens . - 3 . Stephen Hawes Analysis of his Pastime of Pleasure . - 4 . The Latest Metrical Romances - The Earliest Ballads - Chevy Chase - Robin Hood . - 5 . Prose- Literary Dearth - Patrons ...
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... of the art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
... of the art that are nourished by imagination and passion , swayed and prompted by the spirit of their age , by its tone of feeling , by its prevalent opinions , by the cast of social life . We know , likewise 24 INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .
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... feeling more finely , for vishing more worthily , perhaps for resolving more firmly . Yet there are kinds of literary composition which raise us so very little above the dust we live in , that their real worth is in- appreciably small ...
... feeling more finely , for vishing more worthily , perhaps for resolving more firmly . Yet there are kinds of literary composition which raise us so very little above the dust we live in , that their real worth is in- appreciably small ...
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... feelings that possessed him , or even to find voice for chanting hymns or ballads composed by others Mortified , one evening , by having to remain silent in a com- pany of rustics more musical or less modest , he retreated to his humble ...
... feelings that possessed him , or even to find voice for chanting hymns or ballads composed by others Mortified , one evening , by having to remain silent in a com- pany of rustics more musical or less modest , he retreated to his humble ...
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