Masters of English LiteratureA.C. McClurg & Company, 1914 - 446 páginas |
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... Expression of Life . - Literature is the expression of life , and as life is infinitely varied and complex so literature manifests itself in a great variety of form and substance . Diversity of national ideals has produced diversity in ...
... Expression of Life . - Literature is the expression of life , and as life is infinitely varied and complex so literature manifests itself in a great variety of form and substance . Diversity of national ideals has produced diversity in ...
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... expressing itself in sonnet , lyric , masque , and drama , has given place to the passionate seriousness of the religious and polemic Puritan . In Paradise Lost the deep moral earnestness of the age finds its immortal expression . The ...
... expressing itself in sonnet , lyric , masque , and drama , has given place to the passionate seriousness of the religious and polemic Puritan . In Paradise Lost the deep moral earnestness of the age finds its immortal expression . The ...
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... expression in poetry and prose , the achievements of science , as exemplified in steam and elec- tricity , in surgery and medicine , have not found expression in literature . This is , however , taking too narrow a view of science , for ...
... expression in poetry and prose , the achievements of science , as exemplified in steam and elec- tricity , in surgery and medicine , have not found expression in literature . This is , however , taking too narrow a view of science , for ...
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... expression which has always characterized the English - speaking nations shall continue to impel their daughters to prophesy , their old men to dream dreams , and their young men to see visions . O So CHAPTER II Chaucer " Dan Chaucer ...
... expression which has always characterized the English - speaking nations shall continue to impel their daughters to prophesy , their old men to dream dreams , and their young men to see visions . O So CHAPTER II Chaucer " Dan Chaucer ...
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... expression to the life of his own country and time . " He is the poet of the dawn , who wrote The Canterbury Tales , and his old age Made beautiful with song ; and as I read I hear the crowing cock , I hear the note . Of lark and linnet ...
... expression to the life of his own country and time . " He is the poet of the dawn , who wrote The Canterbury Tales , and his old age Made beautiful with song ; and as I read I hear the crowing cock , I hear the note . Of lark and linnet ...
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