English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyHarper & brothers, 1883 - 450 páginas |
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... - tiquity that expelled the dull gloom of the dark ages , and the world seemed young again . The fall of Con- stantinople in 1453 sent a number of Greeks to seek new anew . homes in Europe , where they should be 10 English Literature .
... - tiquity that expelled the dull gloom of the dark ages , and the world seemed young again . The fall of Con- stantinople in 1453 sent a number of Greeks to seek new anew . homes in Europe , where they should be 10 English Literature .
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... Europe . There is opportunity for the mention of but a few of the important facts connected with the way in which literature developed itself . In the first place , we should bear in mind the ex- tent to which the European knowledge of ...
... Europe . There is opportunity for the mention of but a few of the important facts connected with the way in which literature developed itself . In the first place , we should bear in mind the ex- tent to which the European knowledge of ...
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Thomas Sergeant Perry. What we notice in modern Europe is this , that it was much more commonly the Roman than the Grecian writ- ers who served as models . Thus the modern drama of Italy , France , and England began with copying Seneca ...
Thomas Sergeant Perry. What we notice in modern Europe is this , that it was much more commonly the Roman than the Grecian writ- ers who served as models . Thus the modern drama of Italy , France , and England began with copying Seneca ...
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... Europe , and , while England was led to follow the literary methods of France by causes that were entire- ly national , the great reputation of the Augustan age of French literature naturally inspired imitation . And , to repeat ...
... Europe , and , while England was led to follow the literary methods of France by causes that were entire- ly national , the great reputation of the Augustan age of French literature naturally inspired imitation . And , to repeat ...
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... Europe , there seemed to be but one feeling possible : that of unrestrained admiration be- fore its great glory . Writers - and the writers do but represent the reading public - fairly prostrated themselves before the past . They turned ...
... Europe , there seemed to be but one feeling possible : that of unrestrained admiration be- fore its great glory . Writers - and the writers do but represent the reading public - fairly prostrated themselves before the past . They turned ...
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