English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... increased . Elizabeth was old and sick . Burleigh died and was succeeded by his son , Cecil . Jesuits stirred up ... increasing political opposition . Religious differences were also getting sharper . Cath- olics had long suffered under ...
... increased . Elizabeth was old and sick . Burleigh died and was succeeded by his son , Cecil . Jesuits stirred up ... increasing political opposition . Religious differences were also getting sharper . Cath- olics had long suffered under ...
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... increased remarkably , es- pecially after 1750. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the city numbered about 500,000 people ; at the beginning of the nineteenth , there were nearly a million , and London was the largest city in ...
... increased remarkably , es- pecially after 1750. At the beginning of the eighteenth century the city numbered about 500,000 people ; at the beginning of the nineteenth , there were nearly a million , and London was the largest city in ...
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... Increasing in- fluence of Shake- speare Sentimentalism Revival of true com- edy Increasing separation of drama and liter- ature Hanover : George II , '60 George III , 1820 Jacobite revolt , '45 American Revolution , '75 -'83 Trial of ...
... Increasing in- fluence of Shake- speare Sentimentalism Revival of true com- edy Increasing separation of drama and liter- ature Hanover : George II , '60 George III , 1820 Jacobite revolt , '45 American Revolution , '75 -'83 Trial of ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
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