A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 217
... idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion , and that , whatsoever might be the future date of my history , the life of the historian must be short and precarious . The Decline and Fall of the Roman ...
... idea that I had taken my everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion , and that , whatsoever might be the future date of my history , the life of the historian must be short and precarious . The Decline and Fall of the Roman ...
Pagina 308
... Idea of a University ( 1852-58 ) and A Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) have , perhaps , most general interest . In scientific thought , there was one book of outstanding importance , Charles Darwin's Origin of Species ( 1859 ) , the great ...
... Idea of a University ( 1852-58 ) and A Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) have , perhaps , most general interest . In scientific thought , there was one book of outstanding importance , Charles Darwin's Origin of Species ( 1859 ) , the great ...
Pagina 338
... ideas were certainly elementary . The origin of his novels was the vivid idea of certain scenes and characters . " I thought of Mr. Pickwick , " he said ; and provided Mr. Pickwick could be introduced in a number of ludicrous situations ...
... ideas were certainly elementary . The origin of his novels was the vivid idea of certain scenes and characters . " I thought of Mr. Pickwick , " he said ; and provided Mr. Pickwick could be introduced in a number of ludicrous situations ...
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admiration Anglo-Saxon appeared beauty began Ben Jonson Beowulf blank verse Byron cæsura Canterbury Tales career century character charm Chaucer chief Church Coleridge comedy couplet criticism death decasyllabic delight drama dream Dryden early Elizabethan England English English poetry epic essays expression Faerie Queene Falstaff feeling fiction genius give greatest heart heroic couplet honour human humour imagination instance Jane Eyre Johnson Keats King language later lines literary literature living lyrical manner master metre Milton mind narrative nature never novel novelist Paradise Lost passages passion perhaps play poem poet poet's poetic poetry political Pope prose qualities reader Renaissance rhyme romance satire scenes sense Shakespeare Shelley skill sonnets Spenser spirit stanza story style taste Tennyson things thou thought tragedy true Vanity Fair verse Victorian Whig whole wholly words Wordsworth writers written wrote