Landmarks of English LiteratureD. Appleton, 1892 - 460 sider |
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... possessing any high merit from a purely literary point of view should be the work of a Frenchman . We have among us not a few writers , any one of whom , if they would abandon for a few years the practice , now unhappily too prevalent ...
... possessing any high merit from a purely literary point of view should be the work of a Frenchman . We have among us not a few writers , any one of whom , if they would abandon for a few years the practice , now unhappily too prevalent ...
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... possessed little or nothing in common with their predecessors . But even in quieter times , when the broad river of national life is unruffled by violent storms , careful inquiry will make it apparent that its influence upon literature ...
... possessed little or nothing in common with their predecessors . But even in quieter times , when the broad river of national life is unruffled by violent storms , careful inquiry will make it apparent that its influence upon literature ...
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... possessed by writers whose praises are echoed by thousands . But all attempts to resuscitate such books fail as utterly as attempts to lower the position of books which have been accepted as classical . The opinion of the majority of ...
... possessed by writers whose praises are echoed by thousands . But all attempts to resuscitate such books fail as utterly as attempts to lower the position of books which have been accepted as classical . The opinion of the majority of ...
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Henry James Nicoll. Chaucer . 27 writes Sir Harris Nicolas , " he possessed with the classics , with divinity , with astronomy , with so much as was then known of chemistry , and indeed with every other branch of the scholas- tic ...
Henry James Nicoll. Chaucer . 27 writes Sir Harris Nicolas , " he possessed with the classics , with divinity , with astronomy , with so much as was then known of chemistry , and indeed with every other branch of the scholas- tic ...
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... possessed in abundance that " perfect readiness to spend whatever could be honestly got , " which is said to be characteristic of men of letters , and of the ample revenues which he had enjoyed during the preceding years he had probably ...
... possessed in abundance that " perfect readiness to spend whatever could be honestly got , " which is said to be characteristic of men of letters , and of the ample revenues which he had enjoyed during the preceding years he had probably ...
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