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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... the work profess to be a marrow of our literature , or to give the spirit and quintessence of the several authors ; still less does it aim to render its readers independent of the authors themselves or relieve vi Preface.
... the work profess to be a marrow of our literature , or to give the spirit and quintessence of the several authors ; still less does it aim to render its readers independent of the authors themselves or relieve vi Preface.
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... spirit of their thought , literature , and art , infused into the English nature by intercourse and amalgama- tion , have had an intermittent and spiritual * Copyright 19or by J. B. Lippincott Company . I و they attack one of the Danish ...
... spirit of their thought , literature , and art , infused into the English nature by intercourse and amalgama- tion , have had an intermittent and spiritual * Copyright 19or by J. B. Lippincott Company . I و they attack one of the Danish ...
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... spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where Columba , bringing with him , and hand- ing down to his successors , the poetry and ...
... spirit is doing much the same kind of work it did in England during the seventh and eighth centuries . It entered northern England from Iona , where Columba , bringing with him , and hand- ing down to his successors , the poetry and ...
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... spirit of it the stormy sea near Indeed , the presence simple , direct , and rapid ; is as bold and dashing as which all its actors live . and power of the sea is everywhere felt in the poem . Its close is the close of the heathen ...
... spirit of it the stormy sea near Indeed , the presence simple , direct , and rapid ; is as bold and dashing as which all its actors live . and power of the sea is everywhere felt in the poem . Its close is the close of the heathen ...
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... spirit . Existing Celtic hymns , such as Colman's , may have been placed before him by the Irish monks as models for his poetry . But , for all this , his tongue was English and his poems were made in English . Whatever the Irish spirit ...
... spirit . Existing Celtic hymns , such as Colman's , may have been placed before him by the Irish monks as models for his poetry . But , for all this , his tongue was English and his poems were made in English . Whatever the Irish spirit ...
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