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... tion to which our novelists have accustomed us is so differ- ent from the Elizabethan that most of the invented stories which delighted that age would probably seem either hopelessly crude or intolerably artificial to us . But the ...
... tion to which our novelists have accustomed us is so differ- ent from the Elizabethan that most of the invented stories which delighted that age would probably seem either hopelessly crude or intolerably artificial to us . But the ...
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Edmund Kemper Broadus. should present a complete systematization and reorganiza- tion of the fields of knowledge . Another step toward this great scheme was taken in 1620 , when he published his Novum Organum , an exposi- tion of that ...
Edmund Kemper Broadus. should present a complete systematization and reorganiza- tion of the fields of knowledge . Another step toward this great scheme was taken in 1620 , when he published his Novum Organum , an exposi- tion of that ...
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... tion from that , let us go on to the narratives in verse . It was to be expected that Keats with his devotion to Spenser , would try his hand again and again at story - poems . " Endymion , " as we have seen , did not come off very well ...
... tion from that , let us go on to the narratives in verse . It was to be expected that Keats with his devotion to Spenser , would try his hand again and again at story - poems . " Endymion , " as we have seen , did not come off very well ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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