A Literary History of EnglandLongmans, Green and Company, 1929 - 392 pagina's |
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Pagina 35
... things . III The New Learning operated variously on various minds . It made some men wise and others pedantic . Admiration for the classics deprived certain scholars of their good sense , but fortunately the Renaissance in England was ...
... things . III The New Learning operated variously on various minds . It made some men wise and others pedantic . Admiration for the classics deprived certain scholars of their good sense , but fortunately the Renaissance in England was ...
Pagina 113
... things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire , to the effecting of all things possible . " He describes the numerous experiments and wonders of the House : " caves ... for all coagulations , indurations , refrigerations and ...
... things ; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire , to the effecting of all things possible . " He describes the numerous experiments and wonders of the House : " caves ... for all coagulations , indurations , refrigerations and ...
Pagina 209
... things , are all strokes in a pic- ture so vivid and real that Dr. Johnson has become a figure far more living to us than half the phantom beings we meet daily yet never know . Scattered over the whole book are those countless phrases ...
... things , are all strokes in a pic- ture so vivid and real that Dr. Johnson has become a figure far more living to us than half the phantom beings we meet daily yet never know . Scattered over the whole book are those countless phrases ...
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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