A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 203
... literary influence on the abler men of his time was inconsiderable . Some touch of his famous style they may have caught , but it was only in conversation that he really dominated . The idea of his literary dictatorship is a delusion ...
... literary influence on the abler men of his time was inconsiderable . Some touch of his famous style they may have caught , but it was only in conversation that he really dominated . The idea of his literary dictatorship is a delusion ...
Pagina 204
... literary history . The greater part of his life— he was born in 1709 and died in 1784 - was one long struggle with adversity , and it was only after the pub- lication of his Dictionary , that he began to emerge from obscurity . The ...
... literary history . The greater part of his life— he was born in 1709 and died in 1784 - was one long struggle with adversity , and it was only after the pub- lication of his Dictionary , that he began to emerge from obscurity . The ...
Pagina 307
... literary merit , and often not far below those of Macaulay and Carlyle in prose style . It was an age of works planned on a large scale and written with more literary art than many of the specialist monographs of our own time . One of ...
... literary merit , and often not far below those of Macaulay and Carlyle in prose style . It was an age of works planned on a large scale and written with more literary art than many of the specialist monographs of our own time . One of ...
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