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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... thinking and to awaken refined and elevating sentiments . I have frequently invited the student to reflect , how closely the world of letters is related , in all its regions , to that world of reality and action in the midst of which it ...
... thinking and to awaken refined and elevating sentiments . I have frequently invited the student to reflect , how closely the world of letters is related , in all its regions , to that world of reality and action in the midst of which it ...
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... Thinking - Effects on Poetry- Milton's Youth . - 8 . Moral Aspect of the Time - Effects on Literature . - REIGN OF CHARLES . 9. Literary Events - Poetry - Eloquence - Theologians - Erudition . - THE COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE . 10 ...
... Thinking - Effects on Poetry- Milton's Youth . - 8 . Moral Aspect of the Time - Effects on Literature . - REIGN OF CHARLES . 9. Literary Events - Poetry - Eloquence - Theologians - Erudition . - THE COMMONWEALTH AND PROTECTORATE . 10 ...
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... thinking or solid information . The state of the languages has next to be observed . Not only , as has just been noticed , were all the higher kinds of knowledge the patrimony of one profession ; but they were generally or always ...
... thinking or solid information . The state of the languages has next to be observed . Not only , as has just been noticed , were all the higher kinds of knowledge the patrimony of one profession ; but they were generally or always ...
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... thinking and knowledge . Such are treatises on geography , medicine , and medical botany ( in which magical spells play a leading part ) , a series of arithmetical prob- lems , whimsical collections of riddles , and a singular dialogue ...
... thinking and knowledge . Such are treatises on geography , medicine , and medical botany ( in which magical spells play a leading part ) , a series of arithmetical prob- lems , whimsical collections of riddles , and a singular dialogue ...
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... thinking . The Black Prince , our model of historic chivalry , and Occam , the last and greatest of our scholastic philosophers , lived in the same century with Chaucer , the father of English poetical literature , and Wycliffe , the ...
... thinking . The Black Prince , our model of historic chivalry , and Occam , the last and greatest of our scholastic philosophers , lived in the same century with Chaucer , the father of English poetical literature , and Wycliffe , the ...
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