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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... minds of Christian youth . The Series of Illustrative Extracts is as full as it was found pos- sible to make it : and it is ample enough to throw much light on the narrative and observations furnished by the Text . The selections have ...
... minds of Christian youth . The Series of Illustrative Extracts is as full as it was found pos- sible to make it : and it is ample enough to throw much light on the narrative and observations furnished by the Text . The selections have ...
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... mind such reflections as these , and if we qua- ify ourselves for applying them in particular instances by an exact acquaintance with the events of our national history , the study of English literature , in the order of its successive ...
... mind such reflections as these , and if we qua- ify ourselves for applying them in particular instances by an exact acquaintance with the events of our national history , the study of English literature , in the order of its successive ...
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... mind the ele mentary outline here presented to him . The History of English Literature , in all its periods and kinds , is given , with many specimens and valuable criticisms , in two popular text - books : Chambers " Cyclopædia of ...
... mind the ele mentary outline here presented to him . The History of English Literature , in all its periods and kinds , is given , with many specimens and valuable criticisms , in two popular text - books : Chambers " Cyclopædia of ...
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... minds have always re- garded it . It is the noblest of all chivalrous romances . Or , rather , it stands alone in our language , as a model of that which the romances might have been , but are not ; symmetrical and harmonious , while ...
... minds have always re- garded it . It is the noblest of all chivalrous romances . Or , rather , it stands alone in our language , as a model of that which the romances might have been , but are not ; symmetrical and harmonious , while ...
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... mind adequate to splendid and varied exertion ; a mind equally capable of soaring into the higher regions of fiction , and of de- scending into the humble walk of the familiar and ludicrous . He was endowed with a vigorous and well ...
... mind adequate to splendid and varied exertion ; a mind equally capable of soaring into the higher regions of fiction , and of de- scending into the humble walk of the familiar and ludicrous . He was endowed with a vigorous and well ...
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