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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Page 124
... less anxious than the Elizabethans were to imitate the classics , less inclined to fill our writings with allusions to them , less given to spending our thoughts on the age and on the men of whom Plutarch wrote . But such changes have ...
... less anxious than the Elizabethans were to imitate the classics , less inclined to fill our writings with allusions to them , less given to spending our thoughts on the age and on the men of whom Plutarch wrote . But such changes have ...
Page 224
... less and with less hostile din ; That Satan with less toil , and now with ease , Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light , And , like a weather - beaten vessel , holds Gladly the port , though shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the ...
... less and with less hostile din ; That Satan with less toil , and now with ease , Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light , And , like a weather - beaten vessel , holds Gladly the port , though shrouds and tackle torn ; Or in the ...
Page 319
... less wonderful . And then , when we thought the limit of marvels had been reached , the whole thing got going again ... less adventures no less wonderful . The best of it was that these things , however strange , were manifestly true ...
... less wonderful . And then , when we thought the limit of marvels had been reached , the whole thing got going again ... less adventures no less wonderful . The best of it was that these things , however strange , were manifestly true ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
27 | 44 |
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