A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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Page 427
... sentimental play , False Delicacy , by Hugh Kelly . Neither of Goldsmith's plays achieved anything com- parable to the immediate popularity of Richard Cumberland's The West Indian ( 1771 ) , accepted as a masterpiece of sentimental ...
... sentimental play , False Delicacy , by Hugh Kelly . Neither of Goldsmith's plays achieved anything com- parable to the immediate popularity of Richard Cumberland's The West Indian ( 1771 ) , accepted as a masterpiece of sentimental ...
Page 500
... sentimental affinity of the Tory mind with the romanticism of that generation of poets . The sentimental attachments of Toryism are further illustrated by almost everything that Southey wrote in prose , and above all by his genial ...
... sentimental affinity of the Tory mind with the romanticism of that generation of poets . The sentimental attachments of Toryism are further illustrated by almost everything that Southey wrote in prose , and above all by his genial ...
Page 548
... sentimental kinship to her sisters is shown in three things : in her picture of the fatherless waif Heathcliff persecuted by his adoptive brother Earnshaw ; in the intense romantic love between Heathcliff and Catherine ; and in the ...
... sentimental kinship to her sisters is shown in three things : in her picture of the fatherless waif Heathcliff persecuted by his adoptive brother Earnshaw ; in the intense romantic love between Heathcliff and Catherine ; and in the ...
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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