A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Bernard Groom. are matters of high historical interest . But as a work of literature , Beowulf has very great faults . Its three main actions resemble each other too closely to sustain the reader's interest , nor is the poem redeemed by ...
Bernard Groom. are matters of high historical interest . But as a work of literature , Beowulf has very great faults . Its three main actions resemble each other too closely to sustain the reader's interest , nor is the poem redeemed by ...
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... interest in local speech and manners - an interest not merely tolerant or amused , but founded on a recognition that the dialect of a peasant may be as tragic or as pathetic as the most stately speeches declaimed by Garrick or Mrs ...
... interest in local speech and manners - an interest not merely tolerant or amused , but founded on a recognition that the dialect of a peasant may be as tragic or as pathetic as the most stately speeches declaimed by Garrick or Mrs ...
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... interest of the book , however , is not quite uniform , and nothing else in it can quite equal the story of Dorothea Brooke and the erudite Mr. Casaubon , for whom she is at first prepared to sacrifice herself , in such fatal ignorance ...
... interest of the book , however , is not quite uniform , and nothing else in it can quite equal the story of Dorothea Brooke and the erudite Mr. Casaubon , for whom she is at first prepared to sacrifice herself , in such fatal ignorance ...
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