The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... true , his relations with his immediate 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 ...
... true , his relations with his immediate 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 ...
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... true , and gifted with great literary acumen ; but , perhaps , with too little leisure to appreciate contemplative poetry at its true value . They were prone to despise those whom they considered mere penmen and nothing else , and they ...
... true , and gifted with great literary acumen ; but , perhaps , with too little leisure to appreciate contemplative poetry at its true value . They were prone to despise those whom they considered mere penmen and nothing else , and they ...
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... true devotional feeling , and a desire to enter into communion with the Eternal Spirit , but it also shows how he consistently reduced ancient collects to a unitarian standard . Maurice had , indeed , touched the chief defect of Essays ...
... true devotional feeling , and a desire to enter into communion with the Eternal Spirit , but it also shows how he consistently reduced ancient collects to a unitarian standard . Maurice had , indeed , touched the chief defect of Essays ...
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