Manual of English LiteratureJ.M. Dent & Company, 1926 - 356 pagina's |
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Pagina 233
... greatest of our elder poets belong , deriving its spirit and character , as it does , chiefly from a certain conception of the ancient Roman classic poetry . The one therefore may be called , for convenience , the classic , the other ...
... greatest of our elder poets belong , deriving its spirit and character , as it does , chiefly from a certain conception of the ancient Roman classic poetry . The one therefore may be called , for convenience , the classic , the other ...
Pagina 241
... greatest genius among the theo- logical writers of this age was the famous Dr. Isaac Barrow , popularly known chiefly by his admirable Sermons , but renowned also in the history of modern science as , next to Newton himself , the greatest ...
... greatest genius among the theo- logical writers of this age was the famous Dr. Isaac Barrow , popularly known chiefly by his admirable Sermons , but renowned also in the history of modern science as , next to Newton himself , the greatest ...
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... greatest passages to the true sublime . But his style is radically an affected and false one ; and of what force it seems to possess , the greater part is the result not of any real principle of life within it , but of frequent ...
... greatest passages to the true sublime . But his style is radically an affected and false one ; and of what force it seems to possess , the greater part is the result not of any real principle of life within it , but of frequent ...
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