Manual of English LiteratureJ.M. Dent & Company, 1926 - 356 pagina's |
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Pagina 89
... lived and wrote is worthy of being compared with what he has left us . He is in our English poetry almost what Homer is in that of Greece , and Dante in that of Italy - at least in his own sphere still the greatest light . Although ...
... lived and wrote is worthy of being compared with what he has left us . He is in our English poetry almost what Homer is in that of Greece , and Dante in that of Italy - at least in his own sphere still the greatest light . Although ...
Pagina 236
... lived till 1715 , produced his only four plays , Love in a Wood ( 1672 ) , The Gentleman Dancing Master ( 1673 ) , The Country Wife ( 1675 ) , and The Plain Dealer ( 1677 ) , all comedies , be- tween the years 1672 and 1677. The two ...
... lived till 1715 , produced his only four plays , Love in a Wood ( 1672 ) , The Gentleman Dancing Master ( 1673 ) , The Country Wife ( 1675 ) , and The Plain Dealer ( 1677 ) , all comedies , be- tween the years 1672 and 1677. The two ...
Pagina 246
... lived till very nearly the end of the reign of Anne , he published nothing , we believe , after the Revolu- tion , nor indeed for a good many years before it . His style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified ...
... lived till very nearly the end of the reign of Anne , he published nothing , we believe , after the Revolu- tion , nor indeed for a good many years before it . His style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified ...
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