A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 37
... effect of these stories in the far grander form they wear in Homer and the Greek dramatists was intoxicating . The poets seized on the ancient myths with all the eagerness of children . To us , frequent allusions to fiery Phœbus and ...
... effect of these stories in the far grander form they wear in Homer and the Greek dramatists was intoxicating . The poets seized on the ancient myths with all the eagerness of children . To us , frequent allusions to fiery Phœbus and ...
Pagina 95
... effect . L'Allegro , after the invocation , leads off with an octosyllabic couplet : But come , thou Goddess , fair and free , In Heav'n yclept Euphrosyne ; but the next line has only seven syllables , the weak accent of the first foot ...
... effect . L'Allegro , after the invocation , leads off with an octosyllabic couplet : But come , thou Goddess , fair and free , In Heav'n yclept Euphrosyne ; but the next line has only seven syllables , the weak accent of the first foot ...
Pagina 120
... effect of the Bible on our literature and language , it is also difficult to give any idea . Its influence is by no means limited to the devout . Bunyan , indeed , owes everything to it ; but the debt of Swinburne is also im- measurable ...
... effect of the Bible on our literature and language , it is also difficult to give any idea . Its influence is by no means limited to the devout . Bunyan , indeed , owes everything to it ; but the debt of Swinburne is also im- measurable ...
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