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Perhaps the language was not ripe for their success ; perhaps the craftsmen's strength and experience were not equal to the novelty of their attempt . But no one can compare the English styles of the first half of the sixteenth century ...
Perhaps the language was not ripe for their success ; perhaps the craftsmen's strength and experience were not equal to the novelty of their attempt . But no one can compare the English styles of the first half of the sixteenth century ...
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Yet its first and unfamiliar aspect inspires respect , perhaps interest , rather than attracts and satisfies . It is not the remoteness of the subject alone , nor the distance of three centuries which raises a bar between it and those ...
Yet its first and unfamiliar aspect inspires respect , perhaps interest , rather than attracts and satisfies . It is not the remoteness of the subject alone , nor the distance of three centuries which raises a bar between it and those ...
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There can be no doubt of Byron's real habits of thought and feeling on subjects of this kind , even when his language for the occasion is the chastest ; we detect in it the mood of the moment , perhaps spontaneous , perhaps put on ...
There can be no doubt of Byron's real habits of thought and feeling on subjects of this kind , even when his language for the occasion is the chastest ; we detect in it the mood of the moment , perhaps spontaneous , perhaps put on ...
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| Title | Spenser British Writers Series The Gale library of lives and letters. British writers series “The” Gale Library of lives and letters |
| Author | Richard William Church |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1968 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2017 |
| ISBN | 0810330571, 9780810330573 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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