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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... side . ' Book some new thing , ' said the king , ' in the way you are used , into which book I myself may often look ; ' and the request was the origin of the Confessio Amantis , the Confession of a Lover . " “ Of original imaginative ...
... side . ' Book some new thing , ' said the king , ' in the way you are used , into which book I myself may often look ; ' and the request was the origin of the Confessio Amantis , the Confession of a Lover . " “ Of original imaginative ...
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... side of purity , good taste , and piety . We meet the further influence of Boccaccio in the birth of some of the Canterbury Tales , and of Petrarca in the Tales them- selves . To this time is now referred the tale of the Second Nun ...
... side of purity , good taste , and piety . We meet the further influence of Boccaccio in the birth of some of the Canterbury Tales , and of Petrarca in the Tales them- selves . To this time is now referred the tale of the Second Nun ...
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... side Strowed with pleasauns ; 1 whose faire grassy ground Mantled with greene , and goodly beautifide With all the ornaments of Floraes pride , Wherewith her mother Art , as halfe in scorne Of niggard Nature , like a pompous bride Did ...
... side Strowed with pleasauns ; 1 whose faire grassy ground Mantled with greene , and goodly beautifide With all the ornaments of Floraes pride , Wherewith her mother Art , as halfe in scorne Of niggard Nature , like a pompous bride Did ...
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... side . Real men and women were shown under the thin cloaks of its alle- gorical characters ; the vices and the follies of the time were displayed . It was the origin of satiric comedy . The stage was becoming a living power when this ...
... side . Real men and women were shown under the thin cloaks of its alle- gorical characters ; the vices and the follies of the time were displayed . It was the origin of satiric comedy . The stage was becoming a living power when this ...
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... side of the men , had all the marks of a wild youth . It was daring , full of strong but unequal life , romantic , sometimes savage , often tender , always exaggerated in its treatment and expression of the human passions . If it had no ...
... side of the men , had all the marks of a wild youth . It was daring , full of strong but unequal life , romantic , sometimes savage , often tender , always exaggerated in its treatment and expression of the human passions . If it had no ...
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