The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century. To which are Prefixed Two Dissertations. I. On the Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe. II. On the Introduction of Learning Into England, Том 1J. Dodsley, 1775 - 501 страница |
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... must be more especially productive of en- tertainment and utility . I mean , as it is an art , whose object is human society : as it has the peculiar merit , in its operations on that object , of faithfully rẻ- cording the features of ...
... must be more especially productive of en- tertainment and utility . I mean , as it is an art , whose object is human society : as it has the peculiar merit , in its operations on that object , of faithfully rẻ- cording the features of ...
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... must perceive , that the Saxon poetry has no connection with the nature and purpose of my present undertaking . Be- fore the Norman acceffion , which fucceeded to the Saxon government , we were an unformed and an unfettled race . That ...
... must perceive , that the Saxon poetry has no connection with the nature and purpose of my present undertaking . Be- fore the Norman acceffion , which fucceeded to the Saxon government , we were an unformed and an unfettled race . That ...
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... must have contributed in a confider- able degree to their rapid and extenfive conquests ; but at the fame time , fuch mighty atchievements could not have been planned and executed without fome extraordinary vigour of mind , uniform ...
... must have contributed in a confider- able degree to their rapid and extenfive conquests ; but at the fame time , fuch mighty atchievements could not have been planned and executed without fome extraordinary vigour of mind , uniform ...
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... must have been particularly unfavourable to the more elegant literature , yet Latin poetry , from a concurrence of caufes , had for fome time begun to relapse into barbarifm . From the growing encrease of chriftianity , it was deprived ...
... must have been particularly unfavourable to the more elegant literature , yet Latin poetry , from a concurrence of caufes , had for fome time begun to relapse into barbarifm . From the growing encrease of chriftianity , it was deprived ...
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... must have been produced by a scarcity of books . It is in the ftatutes of St. Mary's college at Oxford , founded as a feminary to Ofeney abbey in the year 1446 , " Let no scholar occupy a book in the library above one " hour , or two ...
... must have been produced by a scarcity of books . It is in the ftatutes of St. Mary's college at Oxford , founded as a feminary to Ofeney abbey in the year 1446 , " Let no scholar occupy a book in the library above one " hour , or two ...
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