A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , espe- cially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rap ...
... course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , espe- cially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rap ...
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... course also sharpened by the same cause . Before the commencement of the civil war there appear to have been no fewer than five different companies of public players in London : - 1. That called the King's Company ( the same that ...
... course also sharpened by the same cause . Before the commencement of the civil war there appear to have been no fewer than five different companies of public players in London : - 1. That called the King's Company ( the same that ...
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... course of time come to be less rigidly enforced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are in- formed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhi- bition of stage - plays in London was effectually ...
... course of time come to be less rigidly enforced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are in- formed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhi- bition of stage - plays in London was effectually ...
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... course , the author takes up the subject of psychology , which he treats in the same luminous and interesting manner . Such a work as this has no claim to be con- sidered a poem even of the same sort with the Fairy Queen . In Spenser ...
... course , the author takes up the subject of psychology , which he treats in the same luminous and interesting manner . Such a work as this has no claim to be con- sidered a poem even of the same sort with the Fairy Queen . In Spenser ...
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... course , there is a good deal of inge- nuity shown in Fletcher's poem ; and it is not unimpregnated by poetic feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite grotesque ; and , on the whole ...
... course , there is a good deal of inge- nuity shown in Fletcher's poem ; and it is not unimpregnated by poetic feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite grotesque ; and , on the whole ...
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