A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... genius to write in English . He took over from his English predecessors the language which they had struggled to make a worthy literary medium , and having genius in him , he shaped it to finer issues than they had dreamt of . Before we ...
... genius to write in English . He took over from his English predecessors the language which they had struggled to make a worthy literary medium , and having genius in him , he shaped it to finer issues than they had dreamt of . Before we ...
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... genius to be turned to good account . That man appeared in Chaucer . The case is different with the romances . For even if the best of the English romances fall far short of the superlatively excellent , and if the worst of them are ...
... genius to be turned to good account . That man appeared in Chaucer . The case is different with the romances . For even if the best of the English romances fall far short of the superlatively excellent , and if the worst of them are ...
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... genius , and through his acceptance of the newer Italian humanism but Gower remained French to the end . It has been truly said 2 of him that he invented nothing in style or matter ' , and that the merit of his style is that it ...
... genius , and through his acceptance of the newer Italian humanism but Gower remained French to the end . It has been truly said 2 of him that he invented nothing in style or matter ' , and that the merit of his style is that it ...
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... Genius who in that poem had been the priest of Nature , but who in the Confessio becomes the priest of Venus and the poet's confessor and mentor in relation to his transgressions against Love . These the Genius discusses in relation to ...
... Genius who in that poem had been the priest of Nature , but who in the Confessio becomes the priest of Venus and the poet's confessor and mentor in relation to his transgressions against Love . These the Genius discusses in relation to ...
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... genius . Despite their manifold shortcomings , these works contain some pleasing human touches ; thus , in the Règle , he describes his cowardice , and states that he was in the habit of taking boat at West- minster out of vanity ...
... genius . Despite their manifold shortcomings , these works contain some pleasing human touches ; thus , in the Règle , he describes his cowardice , and states that he was in the habit of taking boat at West- minster out of vanity ...
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