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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... Whole - Its Relations to Our Own Time . - 2 . Literary Character of its First Generation - The Age of Queen Anne and George I. - 3 . Lite- rary Character of its Second and Third Generations - From the Accession of George II . - 4 . The ...
... Whole - Its Relations to Our Own Time . - 2 . Literary Character of its First Generation - The Age of Queen Anne and George I. - 3 . Lite- rary Character of its Second and Third Generations - From the Accession of George II . - 4 . The ...
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... whole Teutonic race , a manly and systematic political constitution . 4. The third of our Periods , here called the Middle Ages , differs strikingly from the Ages described as Dark . The latter were seemingly fruitful in nothing but ...
... whole Teutonic race , a manly and systematic political constitution . 4. The third of our Periods , here called the Middle Ages , differs strikingly from the Ages described as Dark . The latter were seemingly fruitful in nothing but ...
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... whole sky , and convulse the land with one universal storm . When , again , we pass on to our own agitated century , its literary monuments , which , amidst all their shortcomings , are so original and energetic , so interesting and ...
... whole sky , and convulse the land with one universal storm . When , again , we pass on to our own agitated century , its literary monuments , which , amidst all their shortcomings , are so original and energetic , so interesting and ...
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... whole , the progress of literary cul- ture is found to keep pace with the progress of the nations of the earth towards that mighty renovation of man's spiritual nature , which Christianity has been divinely appointed to create . The ...
... whole , the progress of literary cul- ture is found to keep pace with the progress of the nations of the earth towards that mighty renovation of man's spiritual nature , which Christianity has been divinely appointed to create . The ...
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... whole existence , better as well as wiser , by an hour of well - advised study , which has led to earnest meditation on our own character and destiny , or has inspired gratitude for the goodness of Him from whom we receive knowledge ...
... whole existence , better as well as wiser , by an hour of well - advised study , which has led to earnest meditation on our own character and destiny , or has inspired gratitude for the goodness of Him from whom we receive knowledge ...
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