The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... kind of Puritan nor the Bunyan kind of Puri- tan . To them , in their very diverse ways , Puritanism was a cause to fight for and if necessary to die for . It may be doubted whether to Dryden , coming at the tired end of the whole ...
... kind of Puritan nor the Bunyan kind of Puri- tan . To them , in their very diverse ways , Puritanism was a cause to fight for and if necessary to die for . It may be doubted whether to Dryden , coming at the tired end of the whole ...
Page 300
... kind of moulting season , with regard to that part of their dress , having cast great quantities of ribbon , lace , and cambric , and in some measure reduced that part of the human figure to the beautiful globular form which is natural ...
... kind of moulting season , with regard to that part of their dress , having cast great quantities of ribbon , lace , and cambric , and in some measure reduced that part of the human figure to the beautiful globular form which is natural ...
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... kind of poetry the only kind , belonging to that period , that has influenced us . Poetry has a way of swing- ing pendulum - like from one extreme to another . Eliza- bethan poetry seems to us as we look back to it a thing of ecstasy ...
... kind of poetry the only kind , belonging to that period , that has influenced us . Poetry has a way of swing- ing pendulum - like from one extreme to another . Eliza- bethan poetry seems to us as we look back to it a thing of ecstasy ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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