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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... turned into delightful poetry . Bede says he paraphrased all the Bible history , but only Genesis , Exodus , and part of Daniel have come down to us , and scholars agree that these are not Cædmon's , but later versions of his work ...
... turned into delightful poetry . Bede says he paraphrased all the Bible history , but only Genesis , Exodus , and part of Daniel have come down to us , and scholars agree that these are not Cædmon's , but later versions of his work ...
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... turned to play - writing . His satires on Walpole were so effective that Walpole got the Licensing Act passed ( 1737 ) to stop them . Forced to seek other means of livelihood , Fielding turned to the study of law , became ( 1748 ) a ...
... turned to play - writing . His satires on Walpole were so effective that Walpole got the Licensing Act passed ( 1737 ) to stop them . Forced to seek other means of livelihood , Fielding turned to the study of law , became ( 1748 ) a ...
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... turned art from a form of snobbery into a secure inspiration . " Modern society , however , seemed to Ruskin neither III : 41-65 . great nor moral . He loved Gothic art and the middle ages . He hated the steam - engine and all it had ...
... turned art from a form of snobbery into a secure inspiration . " Modern society , however , seemed to Ruskin neither III : 41-65 . great nor moral . He loved Gothic art and the middle ages . He hated the steam - engine and all it had ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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