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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Page vi
... literary life of the nation , have rendered necessary a much more thorough - going revision . and reconstruction ; a completely new edition is imperatively demanded . ' Tis sixty years since - just sixty years since Dr Chambers began ...
... literary life of the nation , have rendered necessary a much more thorough - going revision . and reconstruction ; a completely new edition is imperatively demanded . ' Tis sixty years since - just sixty years since Dr Chambers began ...
Page vii
... literary lost souls , the Ogilbys and the Flecknoes , the Stanyhursts and the Drunken Barnabys , Coryate's Crudities and Boorde's Peregrinations , are treated as having their part in our literary history . Additions and changes of all ...
... literary lost souls , the Ogilbys and the Flecknoes , the Stanyhursts and the Drunken Barnabys , Coryate's Crudities and Boorde's Peregrinations , are treated as having their part in our literary history . Additions and changes of all ...
Page ix
... literary luxury , a patriotic heirloom ; spiritually , Irishmen have learnt in- comparably more from the great body of English writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
... literary luxury , a patriotic heirloom ; spiritually , Irishmen have learnt in- comparably more from the great body of English writers than from the ancient Irish bards or story - tellers . Happily there is no risk of Irishmen becoming ...
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... LITERARY CRITICISM BLIND HARRY ... WILLIAM WEBBE SCOTTISH FIFTEENTH - CENTURY PROSE STEPHEN GOSSON ... ROBERT HENRYSON GEORGE PUTTENHAM ... WILLIAM DUNBAR WILLIAM CAMDEN WALTER KENNEDY JOHN SPEED ... GAVIN DOUGLAS SIR HENRY SPELMAN ...
... LITERARY CRITICISM BLIND HARRY ... WILLIAM WEBBE SCOTTISH FIFTEENTH - CENTURY PROSE STEPHEN GOSSON ... ROBERT HENRYSON GEORGE PUTTENHAM ... WILLIAM DUNBAR WILLIAM CAMDEN WALTER KENNEDY JOHN SPEED ... GAVIN DOUGLAS SIR HENRY SPELMAN ...
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... literary quality - a mere monkish paraphrase of the book as far as the feast of Belshazzar . The school of Cadmon had reached its decay . The poetry of that school took its materials from the Old Testament . Christ was celebrated in it ...
... literary quality - a mere monkish paraphrase of the book as far as the feast of Belshazzar . The school of Cadmon had reached its decay . The poetry of that school took its materials from the Old Testament . Christ was celebrated in it ...
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