A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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... human heart and unravelling the complexities of sentiment . His deepest study of human nature is Troilus and Criseyde , which in one sense is an offshoot of mediæval romance , and in another , a great novel in verse . The story is ...
... human heart and unravelling the complexities of sentiment . His deepest study of human nature is Troilus and Criseyde , which in one sense is an offshoot of mediæval romance , and in another , a great novel in verse . The story is ...
Pagina 186
... human heart . When Johnson declaimed against the vanity of fame , of long life and of beauty , he was not merely imitating Juvenal's Tenth Satire , but expressing his profound belief that human pleasures are uncertain and unsatisfying ...
... human heart . When Johnson declaimed against the vanity of fame , of long life and of beauty , he was not merely imitating Juvenal's Tenth Satire , but expressing his profound belief that human pleasures are uncertain and unsatisfying ...
Pagina 339
... human beings , " said Leigh Hunt of Dickens's face ; and the face was the index of the mind . His good characters , indeed , are not often con- vincing ; but no novelist has such power of impressing moral or physical defects on the ...
... human beings , " said Leigh Hunt of Dickens's face ; and the face was the index of the mind . His good characters , indeed , are not often con- vincing ; but no novelist has such power of impressing moral or physical defects on the ...
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