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 3Chambers, 1922 - English literature |
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... LITERATURE is completed by the issue of a third volume little over two years after the appearance of the first . The first volume carried the history down to near the close of the seventeenth century ; the second was mainly devoted to ...
... LITERATURE is completed by the issue of a third volume little over two years after the appearance of the first . The first volume carried the history down to near the close of the seventeenth century ; the second was mainly devoted to ...
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... literature by the new German cult and the crusade against the classical . In certain re- spects he preserves the eighteenth century attitude , as in his indifference to the Middle Ages and his appreciation of the elegant in literature ...
... literature by the new German cult and the crusade against the classical . In certain re- spects he preserves the eighteenth century attitude , as in his indifference to the Middle Ages and his appreciation of the elegant in literature ...
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... literature is only a small incident of his fame . The coin- cidence of such a supreme intelligence with that moment when the worldly interests of a young nation first came to the fore in its own conscious- ness , and became the goal of ...
... literature is only a small incident of his fame . The coin- cidence of such a supreme intelligence with that moment when the worldly interests of a young nation first came to the fore in its own conscious- ness , and became the goal of ...
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