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 Seiten |
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... less need than formerly of such extracts , now that short classics , full of good things from the best authors , and admirably annotated , can be easily and cheaply procured . We heartily commend for use in the class - room the list of ...
... less need than formerly of such extracts , now that short classics , full of good things from the best authors , and admirably annotated , can be easily and cheaply procured . We heartily commend for use in the class - room the list of ...
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... less house , ' of which he keeps the key . But stern as the fragment is , with its English manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond ...
... less house , ' of which he keeps the key . But stern as the fragment is , with its English manner of looking dreadful things in the face , and with its English pathos , the religi- ous poetry of this time always went with faith beyond ...
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... less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the foreigner , to become and ...
... less French and even less Italian , till at last we find him entirely national in the Canterbury Tales , the best example of English story - telling we possess . The struggle , then , of England , against the foreigner , to become and ...
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... Less . 3 . * " The minstrel , or gleeman , was held in high esteem among the Saxons . His 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 ...
... Less . 3 . * " The minstrel , or gleeman , was held in high esteem among the Saxons . His 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 ...
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... less than seven diplomatic missions . Three of these , in 1372 , '74 , and '78 , were to Italy . At that time the great Ital- ian literature which inspired then , and still inspires , Euro- pean literature , had reached full growth ...
... less than seven diplomatic missions . Three of these , in 1372 , '74 , and '78 , were to Italy . At that time the great Ital- ian literature which inspired then , and still inspires , Euro- pean literature , had reached full growth ...
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