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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... style . influence of his work • PAGE The 1 CHAPTER II BYRON By F. W. MOORMAN , B.A. ( Lond . ) , Ph.D. ( Strassburg ) , Assist- ant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds Early years . Departure from ...
... style . influence of his work • PAGE The 1 CHAPTER II BYRON By F. W. MOORMAN , B.A. ( Lond . ) , Ph.D. ( Strassburg ) , Assist- ant Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Leeds Early years . Departure from ...
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... and spirit of the ancient ballad , they , also , though displaying glimpses of poetic power , are often a little rough and uneven in their style and expression ; and , while they come short of the 6 [ CH . Sir Walter Scott.
... and spirit of the ancient ballad , they , also , though displaying glimpses of poetic power , are often a little rough and uneven in their style and expression ; and , while they come short of the 6 [ CH . Sir Walter Scott.
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... style , in Marmion on description ' ; but the dictum must be inter- preted in a somewhat loose sense . Notwithstanding many felicities and beauties , the style in The Lay , as in Marmion , is often careless . Owing , partly , to his ...
... style , in Marmion on description ' ; but the dictum must be inter- preted in a somewhat loose sense . Notwithstanding many felicities and beauties , the style in The Lay , as in Marmion , is often careless . Owing , partly , to his ...
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... style , and , in Marmion , on description , in The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) it is laid on incident . The poem sets before us an almost con- tinuous succession of exciting occurrences . It is not so much a re - creation of the past as a ...
... style , and , in Marmion , on description , in The Lady of the Lake ( 1810 ) it is laid on incident . The poem sets before us an almost con- tinuous succession of exciting occurrences . It is not so much a re - creation of the past as a ...
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... style might have been corrected , redundances might have been removed , incon- sistencies weeded out and the plots more effectively adjusted . How immensely he might have bettered the literary quality of his novels by careful revision ...
... style might have been corrected , redundances might have been removed , incon- sistencies weeded out and the plots more effectively adjusted . How immensely he might have bettered the literary quality of his novels by careful revision ...
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