The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... interest in the Scottish past represents a phase of the reaction against the ecclesiastical obsession of previous genera- tions . With the advent of the reformation , Scotland's interest in her secular past was , for a long time ...
... interest in the Scottish past represents a phase of the reaction against the ecclesiastical obsession of previous genera- tions . With the advent of the reformation , Scotland's interest in her secular past was , for a long time ...
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... interest in old ballads received an abiding stimulus from bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry , which he read , he says , ' with a delight which may be imagined but cannot be described . ' It was their romantic stimulus that ...
... interest in old ballads received an abiding stimulus from bishop Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry , which he read , he says , ' with a delight which may be imagined but cannot be described . ' It was their romantic stimulus that ...
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... interest which he had failed to attain in Gebir and Count Julian . It may be matter for question whether this interest is equally maintained in his more numerous but , both as individuals and in the mass , less bulky Hellenics , of ...
... interest which he had failed to attain in Gebir and Count Julian . It may be matter for question whether this interest is equally maintained in his more numerous but , both as individuals and in the mass , less bulky Hellenics , of ...
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