A Short History of English LiteratureH. Milford, 1921 - 404 sivua |
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... successfully fought against the Saxon invaders of his country . He became a national hero , and , as in the case of other national heroes , there gathered round his name a mass of legend , much of it transferred from other heroes and ...
... successfully fought against the Saxon invaders of his country . He became a national hero , and , as in the case of other national heroes , there gathered round his name a mass of legend , much of it transferred from other heroes and ...
Sivu 80
... successful allegory is The Bowge of Court , a satire in rime royal on the uncertainty and danger of court favour . The personages of this poem - Favell , Dissimulation , Sus- picion , and others are not mere abstractions , but living ...
... successful allegory is The Bowge of Court , a satire in rime royal on the uncertainty and danger of court favour . The personages of this poem - Favell , Dissimulation , Sus- picion , and others are not mere abstractions , but living ...
Sivu 113
... established himself in England , see ' Theophrastus and His Imitators ' by G. S. Gordon in English Literature and the Classics , Oxford . Overbury . Earle . 6 characters ' successfully , for ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE 113.
... established himself in England , see ' Theophrastus and His Imitators ' by G. S. Gordon in English Literature and the Classics , Oxford . Overbury . Earle . 6 characters ' successfully , for ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN PROSE 113.
Sivu 114
Sir Archibald Strong. Overbury . Earle . 6 characters ' successfully , for a ' character's first characteristic is lightness ' . Hardly more successful was Nicholas Breton ( 1545-1626 ) , who in The Good and the Bad ( 1616 ) contrasted ...
Sir Archibald Strong. Overbury . Earle . 6 characters ' successfully , for a ' character's first characteristic is lightness ' . Hardly more successful was Nicholas Breton ( 1545-1626 ) , who in The Good and the Bad ( 1616 ) contrasted ...
Sivu 124
... successful picture of a woman . Marlowe's share in Henry VI will be discussed later , in relation to Shakespeare . ( The popularity of Tamburlaine , which was second only to that of The Spanish Tragedy , kept before the Elizabethan ...
... successful picture of a woman . Marlowe's share in Henry VI will be discussed later , in relation to Shakespeare . ( The popularity of Tamburlaine , which was second only to that of The Spanish Tragedy , kept before the Elizabethan ...
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