A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading Authors, English and American, with Full Instructions as to the Method in which These are to be Studied, Adapted for Use in Colleges, High Schools and AcademiesClark & Maynard, 1882 - 478 sider |
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... genius obtained for him everywhere the respect and protection of the great and powerful . His place was in the hall of princes , where he never failed to earn ad- miration and applause , attended generally with advantages of a more ...
... genius obtained for him everywhere the respect and protection of the great and powerful . His place was in the hall of princes , where he never failed to earn ad- miration and applause , attended generally with advantages of a more ...
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... genius showed itself in the style , and his wit in the picturesque method and the dramatic dialogue that graced the book . English prose grew larger and richer under his pen , and began that stately step which future historians followed ...
... genius showed itself in the style , and his wit in the picturesque method and the dramatic dialogue that graced the book . English prose grew larger and richer under his pen , and began that stately step which future historians followed ...
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... genius , and his work was as varied in its range as it was original . He followed the form and plan of Chaucer in his two poems of The Thistle and the Rose , 1503 , and The Golden Terge , 1508 , the first on the marriage of James IV ...
... genius , and his work was as varied in its range as it was original . He followed the form and plan of Chaucer in his two poems of The Thistle and the Rose , 1503 , and The Golden Terge , 1508 , the first on the marriage of James IV ...
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... genius like Spenser took the world by storm ; when Lyly's Euphues enchanted the whole of court society ; when a great gentle- man , like Sir Philip Sidney , became a writer .. Literature was made the fashion , and , the disgrace being ...
... genius like Spenser took the world by storm ; when Lyly's Euphues enchanted the whole of court society ; when a great gentle- man , like Sir Philip Sidney , became a writer .. Literature was made the fashion , and , the disgrace being ...
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... genius and by living in a society in which all sorts of information were attainable , he became an accomplished man . The story told of his deer- stealing in Charlecote woods is without proof , but it is likely that his youth was wild ...
... genius and by living in a society in which all sorts of information were attainable , he became an accomplished man . The story told of his deer- stealing in Charlecote woods is without proof , but it is likely that his youth was wild ...
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