Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... character to modern letters had not yet been written or thought out . Upper and Lower Canada had just been united , the New Zealand Company had only begun to plant the colony , and the first great rush of free settlers had not yet given ...
... character to modern letters had not yet been written or thought out . Upper and Lower Canada had just been united , the New Zealand Company had only begun to plant the colony , and the first great rush of free settlers had not yet given ...
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... character and thought have entered into and still influence English poetry . How long they lived undisturbed does not appear , but at last an Aryan folk , part of the first Celtic migration , invaded our island , drove back these ...
... character and thought have entered into and still influence English poetry . How long they lived undisturbed does not appear , but at last an Aryan folk , part of the first Celtic migration , invaded our island , drove back these ...
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... character developed from daring youth to wise and self - sacrificing age . It reaches even excellence in the clearness with which its portraits are drawn and its natural scenery represented . Our power of natural description in poetry ...
... character developed from daring youth to wise and self - sacrificing age . It reaches even excellence in the clearness with which its portraits are drawn and its natural scenery represented . Our power of natural description in poetry ...
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... character . He has signed his name in runic letters to four of his poems . His riddling commentary on these runes gives personal details of parts of his life . His youth , he says , ' was radiant . ' He was sometimes attached as a Scôp ...
... character . He has signed his name in runic letters to four of his poems . His riddling commentary on these runes gives personal details of parts of his life . His youth , he says , ' was radiant . ' He was sometimes attached as a Scôp ...
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... character adorns his style . The stories which embellish the book have a unique clearness and grace , a vivid grasp of character , a human tenderness , which makes us feel at times as if we were present with him in his room at Jarrow ...
... character adorns his style . The stories which embellish the book have a unique clearness and grace , a vivid grasp of character , a human tenderness , which makes us feel at times as if we were present with him in his room at Jarrow ...
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