A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... French wit , gallantry , elegance , and artistic deftness . Doubtless Virgil , Horace , Cicero , Ovid , and Juvenal meant more to the literate English gentle- man of the period than did his French contemporaries , Descartes , Molière ...
... French wit , gallantry , elegance , and artistic deftness . Doubtless Virgil , Horace , Cicero , Ovid , and Juvenal meant more to the literate English gentle- man of the period than did his French contemporaries , Descartes , Molière ...
Page 717
... French drama to English and prefers Elizabethan drama to that of the early Restoration period ; and Neander , who most nearly is Dryden himself among the speakers , finally defends the English as opposed to the French , gives a glowing ...
... French drama to English and prefers Elizabethan drama to that of the early Restoration period ; and Neander , who most nearly is Dryden himself among the speakers , finally defends the English as opposed to the French , gives a glowing ...
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... French romances by D'Urfé , Gomberville , Mlle de Scudéry , French and La Calprenède had undoubtedly a considerable polite vogue . Enormously Romances long ( eight or ten volumes is a fair average ) , tediously complicated , and loosely ...
... French romances by D'Urfé , Gomberville , Mlle de Scudéry , French and La Calprenède had undoubtedly a considerable polite vogue . Enormously Romances long ( eight or ten volumes is a fair average ) , tediously complicated , and loosely ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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