A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... never to have been worked out in its complete proportions . The story , which comes from Plutarch's Life of Antony and also appears in Lucian's dialogue Timon the Misanthrope , is not a tragic theme , not even essentially dramatic . It ...
... never to have been worked out in its complete proportions . The story , which comes from Plutarch's Life of Antony and also appears in Lucian's dialogue Timon the Misanthrope , is not a tragic theme , not even essentially dramatic . It ...
Page 385
... never have peace of mind , till all honest men are of my opinion . Indignation , said the ancient poet , made verses . Gulliver's Travels , like all great satire , was sent out to stir up indignation in a too complacent world . Swift is ...
... never have peace of mind , till all honest men are of my opinion . Indignation , said the ancient poet , made verses . Gulliver's Travels , like all great satire , was sent out to stir up indignation in a too complacent world . Swift is ...
Page 438
... never obscures the general plan . Gibbon has never been excelled in this perfect union of history as erudition and as art . This grandiose theme he was never tempted to cheapen with emotional or didactic rhetoric . His emanci- pated and ...
... never obscures the general plan . Gibbon has never been excelled in this perfect union of history as erudition and as art . This grandiose theme he was never tempted to cheapen with emotional or didactic rhetoric . His emanci- pated and ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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