The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... present day to read all this ; still less , to take the slight trouble necessary to understand it ; for much of it is ' occasional ' and requires commentary . And yet , it may be said unhesitatingly that , unless the whole of it is read ...
... present day to read all this ; still less , to take the slight trouble necessary to understand it ; for much of it is ' occasional ' and requires commentary . And yet , it may be said unhesitatingly that , unless the whole of it is read ...
Page 113
... present writer has never seen an adequate selection from Taylor , though one may exist . It would be as scrappy as England's Parnassus itself ; but it would certainly show the author's right to a place on the sacred hill . Some of ...
... present writer has never seen an adequate selection from Taylor , though one may exist . It would be as scrappy as England's Parnassus itself ; but it would certainly show the author's right to a place on the sacred hill . Some of ...
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... present day . Not far apart from them , yet still somewhat in isolation , was the striking figure of John Mason Neale , not an Oxford but a Cambridge man . He was antiquary , historian , poet , novelist , priest ; and in none of these ...
... present day . Not far apart from them , yet still somewhat in isolation , was the striking figure of John Mason Neale , not an Oxford but a Cambridge man . He was antiquary , historian , poet , novelist , priest ; and in none of these ...
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