A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 81
... less of a tragedy than Hamlet or Othello , for it contains less conflict . Antony is suffering from the dotage " of love when the play opens , and though he succeeds in breaking away from the " grave charm " which is ruining his career ...
... less of a tragedy than Hamlet or Othello , for it contains less conflict . Antony is suffering from the dotage " of love when the play opens , and though he succeeds in breaking away from the " grave charm " which is ruining his career ...
Pagina 117
... Less magni- ficent than Browne , less poetic than Milton , Clarendon is more equable in his prose than either , and his theme has a human interest which is often lacking in their pages . His History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in ...
... Less magni- ficent than Browne , less poetic than Milton , Clarendon is more equable in his prose than either , and his theme has a human interest which is often lacking in their pages . His History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in ...
Pagina 185
... less inviolable than of old . dreadful heresy began to be whispered that perhaps they might not possess after all a complete monopoly of the literary and artistic virtues . Renaissance painting , Gothic architecture and medieval ...
... less inviolable than of old . dreadful heresy began to be whispered that perhaps they might not possess after all a complete monopoly of the literary and artistic virtues . Renaissance painting , Gothic architecture and medieval ...
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