A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... means to the end . Certainly , Anglo - Saxon but faintly expresses the English spirit as we now understand it to be ... mean man , and there is little difference between them in use . In poetry , especially , this wealth of words is ...
... means to the end . Certainly , Anglo - Saxon but faintly expresses the English spirit as we now understand it to be ... mean man , and there is little difference between them in use . In poetry , especially , this wealth of words is ...
Pagina 64
... means , plays of many scenes could be acted with a speed which in our theatre would be im- practicable . Hamlet , uncurtailed , is a prodigiously long work for a modern stage , but in an Elizabethan theatre its length would be scarcely ...
... means , plays of many scenes could be acted with a speed which in our theatre would be im- practicable . Hamlet , uncurtailed , is a prodigiously long work for a modern stage , but in an Elizabethan theatre its length would be scarcely ...
Pagina 98
... means which have produced the effect . In the first line , Shakespeare twice substitutes a single syllable for a whole iambic foot . The licence is bold in the extreme , yet no other device could so effectively have represented the ...
... means which have produced the effect . In the first line , Shakespeare twice substitutes a single syllable for a whole iambic foot . The licence is bold in the extreme , yet no other device could so effectively have represented the ...
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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