The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... feeling as if I were treading on his gravestone . ' He was also favoured , in no small degree , by his border descent and prepossessions and an early literary nurture on border tales and ballads . It was this that gave the first impulse ...
... feeling as if I were treading on his gravestone . ' He was also favoured , in no small degree , by his border descent and prepossessions and an early literary nurture on border tales and ballads . It was this that gave the first impulse ...
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... feeling and manner ' ; and we must suppose that this was more particularly attempted in the Lucy introductions . The romance , a wondrous love story of the time of Arthur , is itself , also , in a more gentle and subdued key than is ...
... feeling and manner ' ; and we must suppose that this was more particularly attempted in the Lucy introductions . The romance , a wondrous love story of the time of Arthur , is itself , also , in a more gentle and subdued key than is ...
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... feelings ; he was familiar with its varied aspects ; and , in his references to them in his romances , he shows an unerring instinct for what is appropriate for his purpose . Again , while employing an immense multiplicity of scenic ...
... feelings ; he was familiar with its varied aspects ; and , in his references to them in his romances , he shows an unerring instinct for what is appropriate for his purpose . Again , while employing an immense multiplicity of scenic ...
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... feelings , by the hue and cry against him , he perceived that ' if what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true , I was unfit for England ; if false , England was unfit for me . ' He accordingly left England for the continent ...
... feelings , by the hue and cry against him , he perceived that ' if what was whispered and muttered and murmured was true , I was unfit for England ; if false , England was unfit for me . ' He accordingly left England for the continent ...
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... feelings towards England were , it is obvious that the new life which now opened up to him on the shores of the Adriatic proved congenial to his tastes and fostered the growth of his poetic genius . If the loose code of morals accepted ...
... feelings towards England were , it is obvious that the new life which now opened up to him on the shores of the Adriatic proved congenial to his tastes and fostered the growth of his poetic genius . If the loose code of morals accepted ...
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