A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 148
... born in 1631 and died in 1700. As a boy , he came under the last enchantments of the Re- naissance ; as a middle - aged man he found true scope for his powers in the political satire . He was thoroughly aware of having been born " out ...
... born in 1631 and died in 1700. As a boy , he came under the last enchantments of the Re- naissance ; as a middle - aged man he found true scope for his powers in the political satire . He was thoroughly aware of having been born " out ...
Pagina 233
... born and shortest - lived , was the purest artist , the least distracted of all from devotion to poetry . Among the prose writers , Hazlitt kept his revolutionary faith , mingled with worship of Napoleon , till the end , while Jeffrey ...
... born and shortest - lived , was the purest artist , the least distracted of all from devotion to poetry . Among the prose writers , Hazlitt kept his revolutionary faith , mingled with worship of Napoleon , till the end , while Jeffrey ...
Pagina 370
... born in 1867 near Hanley , one of the Five Towns of the Potteries . After some years spent in miscellaneous literary work , Mr. Bennett resolved to devote himself wholly to novel- writing . His strength was first fully shown in that ...
... born in 1867 near Hanley , one of the Five Towns of the Potteries . After some years spent in miscellaneous literary work , Mr. Bennett resolved to devote himself wholly to novel- writing . His strength was first fully shown in that ...
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