The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... literary predecessors were much more intimate . Though his tales derive something of their romantic flavour from his familiarity with the older romance writers — both in prose and verse he was also much advantaged by the antecedence of ...
... literary predecessors were much more intimate . Though his tales derive something of their romantic flavour from his familiarity with the older romance writers — both in prose and verse he was also much advantaged by the antecedence of ...
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... literary vocation ; while the hours he spent in writing were mostly hours of keen delight to him and he never apparently deemed it a toil ; yet , his social aspirations seem to have been stronger than his literary ambition . As Lockhart ...
... literary vocation ; while the hours he spent in writing were mostly hours of keen delight to him and he never apparently deemed it a toil ; yet , his social aspirations seem to have been stronger than his literary ambition . As Lockhart ...
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... literary article in the first number on Southey's Thalaba - indicated the spirit of much of the future literary criticism of the Review . Jeffrey seems anxious to show that the stern motto of The Edinburgh - Judex damnatur cum nocens ...
... literary article in the first number on Southey's Thalaba - indicated the spirit of much of the future literary criticism of the Review . Jeffrey seems anxious to show that the stern motto of The Edinburgh - Judex damnatur cum nocens ...
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