Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to TennysonJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1863 - 387 pages |
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... English humour - Southey's ballad - Necessity of intellectual discipline Disadvantage of courses of reading - Books not insulated things - Authors who guide - Southey's Doctor - Elia -Coleridge - Divisions of Prose and Poetry - Henry ...
... English humour - Southey's ballad - Necessity of intellectual discipline Disadvantage of courses of reading - Books not insulated things - Authors who guide - Southey's Doctor - Elia -Coleridge - Divisions of Prose and Poetry - Henry ...
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... English - Chau- cer resumed - His humour and pathos - Sense of natural beauty -The Temple of Fame - Chaucer and Mr. Babbage - The flower and the leaf - Canterbury Tales - Chaucer's high moral tone- Wordsworth's stanza - Poet's corner ...
... English - Chau- cer resumed - His humour and pathos - Sense of natural beauty -The Temple of Fame - Chaucer and Mr. Babbage - The flower and the leaf - Canterbury Tales - Chaucer's high moral tone- Wordsworth's stanza - Poet's corner ...
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... LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of Charles the ...
... LITERATURE OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES . Milton's old age - Donne's Sermons - No great school of poetry without love of nature - Blank in this respect between Paradise Lost and Thomson's Seasons - Court of Charles the ...
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... language - Childe Harold - The Dying Gladiator -The Isles of Greece - Contrast of Byron's and Shakspeare's creations - Miss Barrett - Miss Kemble's sonnet - Byron as a poet of nature - His antagonism to Divine truth - The Dream , the ...
... language - Childe Harold - The Dying Gladiator -The Isles of Greece - Contrast of Byron's and Shakspeare's creations - Miss Barrett - Miss Kemble's sonnet - Byron as a poet of nature - His antagonism to Divine truth - The Dream , the ...
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... Poetry , science , history , biography , fiction , the mul tiform divisions of miscellaneous literature , each and all rise up in their vast proportions to assert their claims . Secular literature , in its various departments , and ...
... Poetry , science , history , biography , fiction , the mul tiform divisions of miscellaneous literature , each and all rise up in their vast proportions to assert their claims . Secular literature , in its various departments , and ...
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