Introduction to English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonShaw, 1855 - 234 pages |
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... sacred literature , casting its lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own English words ; there is the host as large , which , in the ...
... sacred literature , casting its lights into the life beyond , both are at hand with the boundless exuberance of their stores . There is the great multitude of books in our own English words ; there is the host as large , which , in the ...
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... sacred light over profane history , by tracing God's providence in the annals of a pagan people . It is every man and every woman whom Spenser leads into the sunny and the shadowy spaces of his marvellous allegory ; and Shakspeare into ...
... sacred light over profane history , by tracing God's providence in the annals of a pagan people . It is every man and every woman whom Spenser leads into the sunny and the shadowy spaces of his marvellous allegory ; and Shakspeare into ...
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... sacred from violation , or of forests inaccessible to fraud . This is a great prerogative of the power - literature . . . The knowledge- literature , like the fashion of this world , passeth away . But all literature , properly so ...
... sacred from violation , or of forests inaccessible to fraud . This is a great prerogative of the power - literature . . . The knowledge- literature , like the fashion of this world , passeth away . But all literature , properly so ...
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... sacred and devotional literature , especially that of the seventeenth century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the ...
... sacred and devotional literature , especially that of the seventeenth century . In nothing is familiarity with the literature of various periods more important than in the culture of poetic taste , our judgments and feelings for the ...
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... , the poetic element is still present , to be followed by the vision and imagery of the Apocalypse . Such is the unquestioned combination of poetry and prose in sacred Writ - the best means , we must believe , LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 37.
... , the poetic element is still present , to be followed by the vision and imagery of the Apocalypse . Such is the unquestioned combination of poetry and prose in sacred Writ - the best means , we must believe , LITERARY PRINCIPLES . 37.
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