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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... letters is related , in all its regions , to that world of reality and action in the midst of which it comes into being : how Literature is , in its origin , an effusion and perpetuation of human thoughts , and emotions , and wishes ...
... letters is related , in all its regions , to that world of reality and action in the midst of which it comes into being : how Literature is , in its origin , an effusion and perpetuation of human thoughts , and emotions , and wishes ...
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... Letters . - 2 . Roger Ascham - His Style - His Toxophilus - His Schoolmaster - Prosody - Female Education - Wilson's Logic and Rhetoric . - ENGLISH POETRY . 3. Poetical Aspect and Relations of the Age - Its Earliest Poetry - Satires ...
... Letters . - 2 . Roger Ascham - His Style - His Toxophilus - His Schoolmaster - Prosody - Female Education - Wilson's Logic and Rhetoric . - ENGLISH POETRY . 3. Poetical Aspect and Relations of the Age - Its Earliest Poetry - Satires ...
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... Letters . - 5 . Philosophy- ( 1 . ) Theory of Litera- ture - Burke - Reynolds - Campbell - Home - Blair - Smith- ( 2 . ) Political Economy -Adam Smith . - 6 . Philosophy continued- ( 3 . ) Ethics - Adam Smith - Tucker- Paley- ( 4 ...
... Letters . - 5 . Philosophy- ( 1 . ) Theory of Litera- ture - Burke - Reynolds - Campbell - Home - Blair - Smith- ( 2 . ) Political Economy -Adam Smith . - 6 . Philosophy continued- ( 3 . ) Ethics - Adam Smith - Tucker- Paley- ( 4 ...
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... letters , as well as by other exertions , it was they that first guided France towards being what she afterwards became , the model and in- structress of medieval Europe . They took possession of England , not as colonists ...
... letters , as well as by other exertions , it was they that first guided France towards being what she afterwards became , the model and in- structress of medieval Europe . They took possession of England , not as colonists ...
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... letters has been able , during the last three centuries , to influence the world of action so much more power- fully than ever before ; and how its power has gradually widened from age to age , and been exercised in working more and ...
... letters has been able , during the last three centuries , to influence the world of action so much more power- fully than ever before ; and how its power has gradually widened from age to age , and been exercised in working more and ...
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