A Manual of English LiteratureGood Press, 31 aug 2021 - 599 pagina's A Manual of English Literature is an insightful academic text written by Scottish author George Lillie Craik. The book offers a comprehensive overview of English literature, reflecting Craik's profound understanding of the subject and his ability to make complex literary concepts accessible to readers. |
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... belonging to quite other stocks. They may be said to present different shades of the same colour. And even in their geographical distribution they lie as it were in so many successive ridges;—the High-Germanic languages farthest south ...
... belonging to quite other stocks. They may be said to present different shades of the same colour. And even in their geographical distribution they lie as it were in so many successive ridges;—the High-Germanic languages farthest south ...
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... belonging to the sixth century, the heresiarch Pelagius and his disciple Celestius, St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland, with his friend Bishop Secundinus, and the poet Sedulius, are generally regarded as having been natives of the ...
... belonging to the sixth century, the heresiarch Pelagius and his disciple Celestius, St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland, with his friend Bishop Secundinus, and the poet Sedulius, are generally regarded as having been natives of the ...
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... belong to distinct branches of what is called the Indo-European family; but the Celtic branch, though admitted to be ... belonging to whom Dunstan is recorded to have diligently studied. The northern parts of the kingdom, moreover, were ...
... belong to distinct branches of what is called the Indo-European family; but the Celtic branch, though admitted to be ... belonging to whom Dunstan is recorded to have diligently studied. The northern parts of the kingdom, moreover, were ...
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... belonging to the Low-Germanic, or middle, group of the Gothic tongues. That is to say, it is classed with the Dutch and the Flemish, and the dialects generally of the more northern and low-lying part of what was anciently called Germany ...
... belonging to the Low-Germanic, or middle, group of the Gothic tongues. That is to say, it is classed with the Dutch and the Flemish, and the dialects generally of the more northern and low-lying part of what was anciently called Germany ...
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... belong to different languages, but only at most to two successive stages of the same language. They afford us a record or representation of the language in which there is no gap. This cannot be said of any other existing European tongue ...
... belong to different languages, but only at most to two successive stages of the same language. They afford us a record or representation of the language in which there is no gap. This cannot be said of any other existing European tongue ...
Inhoudsopgave
Song of Canute 87 | |
Hugh Bigotts Boast 88 | |
THIRD ENGLISH | |
THE ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE | |
Eulogy on Jonson 290 | |
ENGLISH LITERATURE SINCE THE REVOLUTION OF 1688 | |
THE LATTER PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | |
Reflections on French Revolution Hereditary Principle 415 | |
The Vision part 449 | |
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | |
Laodamia 469 | |
The Sultan Mahmoud 505 | |
Repressor Midsummer Eve 170 | |
MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | |
Fairy Queen Belphœbe 234 | |
LITERATURE OF THE PRESENT | |
A Childs Grave at Florence 514 | |
INDEX | |
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A Manual of English Literature: And of the History of the ..., Volumes 1-2 George Lillie Craik Volledige weergave - 1874 |
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