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 ix
... true federation of peoples are intellectual and spiritual sympathies , common aspirations , like principles . Erelong American writers attained a distinctive note , ever most welcome in literature . But this is a development from within ...
... true federation of peoples are intellectual and spiritual sympathies , common aspirations , like principles . Erelong American writers attained a distinctive note , ever most welcome in literature . But this is a development from within ...
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... true of that which celebrates the exploits of Richard Cœur de Lion . Richard is depicted as a truculent person , who orders the slaying of sixty thousand Saracens in cold blood , and bursts into a great laugh when he finds that his cook ...
... true of that which celebrates the exploits of Richard Cœur de Lion . Richard is depicted as a truculent person , who orders the slaying of sixty thousand Saracens in cold blood , and bursts into a great laugh when he finds that his cook ...
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... true national feeling . But his possession of a name- and it is only his name we know - and the names of the battles he sings have served to keep alive his verse , of which these stanzas on the taking of Calais are at least a fair ...
... true national feeling . But his possession of a name- and it is only his name we know - and the names of the battles he sings have served to keep alive his verse , of which these stanzas on the taking of Calais are at least a fair ...
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... true - hearted worker , becomes almost identical with Christ Him- self . Clad in the armour of Piers , Christ ' jousts ' in Jerusalem against the Devil and harrows Hell . But the poet still wanted to work out in detail a gospel of ...
... true - hearted worker , becomes almost identical with Christ Him- self . Clad in the armour of Piers , Christ ' jousts ' in Jerusalem against the Devil and harrows Hell . But the poet still wanted to work out in detail a gospel of ...
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... true that he never wrote his balades and short poems with the ease of his narrative in the couplet stanza , but they seem to belong to a later and less happy period than any of the Canterbury Tales , and we may reasonably conclude that ...
... true that he never wrote his balades and short poems with the ease of his narrative in the couplet stanza , but they seem to belong to a later and less happy period than any of the Canterbury Tales , and we may reasonably conclude that ...
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