British Writers: William Langland to the English Bible, Volumes 1-8This collection of critical essays covers hundreds of writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader withtheir distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. |
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Page 96
... father , who was a justice of the Queen's Bench , and that to his paternal grand- father , an archdeacon of Salisbury , he owed both his love of learning and the strong bent toward Christian moral teaching that characterize his novels ...
... father , who was a justice of the Queen's Bench , and that to his paternal grand- father , an archdeacon of Salisbury , he owed both his love of learning and the strong bent toward Christian moral teaching that characterize his novels ...
Page 235
... father enjoyed his style of Lord Auchinleck not by hereditary right but as one of the leading Scottish judges . Boswell and his father were different in almost every way - in politics and religion , in tastes and conduct , and in ...
... father enjoyed his style of Lord Auchinleck not by hereditary right but as one of the leading Scottish judges . Boswell and his father were different in almost every way - in politics and religion , in tastes and conduct , and in ...
Page 273
... father was a man of uncertain temper . As a small boy the poet was terrified by his father's outbursts of passion , and his lifelong hatred of drunkenness sprang from the violence he witnessed at home when his father had been drinking ...
... father was a man of uncertain temper . As a small boy the poet was terrified by his father's outbursts of passion , and his lifelong hatred of drunkenness sprang from the violence he witnessed at home when his father had been drinking ...
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