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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... composition in the regular form of the ancient language; Full commencement of the intermixture of the two races; 1272. New age of the Edwards; Commencement of the connexion of the English royal family with that of France by the second ...
... composition in the regular form of the ancient language; Full commencement of the intermixture of the two races; 1272. New age of the Edwards; Commencement of the connexion of the English royal family with that of France by the second ...
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... composition of his celebrated Ecclesiastical History of England, which he brought to a close in his fifty-ninth year. It is our chief original authority for the earlier portion even of the civil history of the English nation. But Bede ...
... composition of his celebrated Ecclesiastical History of England, which he brought to a close in his fifty-ninth year. It is our chief original authority for the earlier portion even of the civil history of the English nation. But Bede ...
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... composition of things. In another part he inserts a very elaborate discussion on arithmetic, which he says he had learnt from his infancy. He also details a curious conversation on the elements of things, on the motions of the heavenly ...
... composition of things. In another part he inserts a very elaborate discussion on arithmetic, which he says he had learnt from his infancy. He also details a curious conversation on the elements of things, on the motions of the heavenly ...
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... compositions in it any artistic element, except of the most dubious and unsatisfactory kind. Either such an element is not ... composition merely had the words “This is verse” written over it or under it. In respect of everything else ...
... compositions in it any artistic element, except of the most dubious and unsatisfactory kind. Either such an element is not ... composition merely had the words “This is verse” written over it or under it. In respect of everything else ...
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... composition; but his attempts are of the slightest character, and, unadventurous as they are, nobody, can undertake to say, except as to palpable points of right or wrong in grammar, whether they are well or ill done. The language ...
... composition; but his attempts are of the slightest character, and, unadventurous as they are, nobody, can undertake to say, except as to palpable points of right or wrong in grammar, whether they are well or ill done. The language ...
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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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