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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... poet of the Canterbury Tales . In the active busi- ness life he led during this period , he was likely to grow out of mere sentiment , for he was not only employed on service abroad but also at home . In 1374 he was Comptroller of the ...
... poet of the Canterbury Tales . In the active busi- ness life he led during this period , he was likely to grow out of mere sentiment , for he was not only employed on service abroad but also at home . In 1374 he was Comptroller of the ...
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... poets in English since his day derive their tongue from the language of the Canterbury Tales . They give him honor for this , but still more for that he was the first English artist . Poetry is an art , and the artist in poetry is one ...
... poets in English since his day derive their tongue from the language of the Canterbury Tales . They give him honor for this , but still more for that he was the first English artist . Poetry is an art , and the artist in poetry is one ...
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... poet after poet with fine subjects for work or fine frames for their subjects . He had not a tradesman's , but a loving literary , interest in printing the old English poets ; and , in sending them out from his press , Caxton kept up ...
... poet after poet with fine subjects for work or fine frames for their subjects . He had not a tradesman's , but a loving literary , interest in printing the old English poets ; and , in sending them out from his press , Caxton kept up ...
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... poet , he was a delightful man ; fresh , natural , and happy even to his old age , when he recalls himself as a boy weeping for nought , and anon after glad . ' There was scarcely any literary work he could not do . He rhymed his- tory ...
... poet , he was a delightful man ; fresh , natural , and happy even to his old age , when he recalls himself as a boy weeping for nought , and anon after glad . ' There was scarcely any literary work he could not do . He rhymed his- tory ...
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... poets would be likely to share in this individual quality , and , in spite of the overpowering influence of Chaucer , to strike out new veins of poetic thought and new methods of poetic expression . And this is what happened . Long ...
... poets would be likely to share in this individual quality , and , in spite of the overpowering influence of Chaucer , to strike out new veins of poetic thought and new methods of poetic expression . And this is what happened . Long ...
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