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... writers give with consider- able fulness the leading biographical facts , together with a critical estimate of their works . The selections for special study , which are chosen to illustrate the distin- guishing characteristics of each ...
... writers give with consider- able fulness the leading biographical facts , together with a critical estimate of their works . The selections for special study , which are chosen to illustrate the distin- guishing characteristics of each ...
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... writers , the student learns something of the manner in which any author is to be studied . His literary taste is developed ; and in his subsequent studies in literature , he will be capable , in some measure at least , of forming an ...
... writers , the student learns something of the manner in which any author is to be studied . His literary taste is developed ; and in his subsequent studies in literature , he will be capable , in some measure at least , of forming an ...
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... writers , the general character of the age in which they lived , and the physical and social con- ditions by which they were surrounded . This fact shows the intimate relation between literature and history . It has been questioned ...
... writers , the general character of the age in which they lived , and the physical and social con- ditions by which they were surrounded . This fact shows the intimate relation between literature and history . It has been questioned ...
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... writers . The literary history of France covers an equally extended period ; and already in the Middle Ages it counted several famous epics . In Germany the great " Nibelungen Lied " was composed in the twelfth century . While it is ...
... writers . The literary history of France covers an equally extended period ; and already in the Middle Ages it counted several famous epics . In Germany the great " Nibelungen Lied " was composed in the twelfth century . While it is ...
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... writers were colonists who had received their education in England . The culture of this country is distinctively English in origin and char- acter ; the differences are but modifications growing out of the new environment . We owe our ...
... writers were colonists who had received their education in England . The culture of this country is distinctively English in origin and char- acter ; the differences are but modifications growing out of the new environment . We owe our ...
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