A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already been fixed . The tongue of the conquered people had first sunk to the level of a despised dialect , spoken still , but not by men of ...
... began to write in the fourteenth century , the composite character of the English language had already been fixed . The tongue of the conquered people had first sunk to the level of a despised dialect , spoken still , but not by men of ...
Pagina 233
... began with the Revolution and ended with Napoleon had , indeed , two different effects upon the English mind . It broadened and it intensified . It set up new rights and it strengthened old loyalties . It created new faith in mankind ...
... began with the Revolution and ended with Napoleon had , indeed , two different effects upon the English mind . It broadened and it intensified . It set up new rights and it strengthened old loyalties . It created new faith in mankind ...
Pagina 271
... began to cultivate a style of light cynicism and mocking disillusionment . He gave up the Spenserian stanza , which had suited the graver moods of Childe Harold and adopted the ottava rima of Italian poetry , a measure which he handled ...
... began to cultivate a style of light cynicism and mocking disillusionment . He gave up the Spenserian stanza , which had suited the graver moods of Childe Harold and adopted the ottava rima of Italian poetry , a measure which he handled ...
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admiration Anglo-Saxon appeared beauty Beelzebub began Ben Jonson blank verse Byron cæsura career character charm Chaucer chief Church Coleridge Commodus couplet criticism death delight drama dream Dryden Elizabethan England English English poetry epic essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff feeling fiction French Revolution genius give greatest heart heroic couplet honour human humour imagination instance Jane Austen Johnson Keats King Lady language lines literary literature living lyrical Lyrical Ballads manner master metre Milton mind narrative nature never novel novelist Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps Pindaric play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Pope praise prose qualities reader rhyme romance satire scenes Scott sense Shakespeare Shelley sonnets speeches Spenser spirit stanza story style Swift taste Tennyson thee things thou thought tragedy verse Victorian Whig whole words Wordsworth writers written wrote