Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1925 - 379 páginas |
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... Chaucer's verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake- speare's plays are unfit ...
... Chaucer's verse is wrong , and a flitting acquaintance with the life of Shakespeare , the history of the stage , or the most common motive for human endeavour , would dispose of the Lamb's paradox that Shake- speare's plays are unfit ...
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... Chaucer has arranged the Pilgrimage to Canterbury !. Now , let us step on a hundred years for- ward . We are now within hail of Alexander , and a brilliant consistory of Grecian men that is by which he is surrounded . There are now ...
... Chaucer has arranged the Pilgrimage to Canterbury !. Now , let us step on a hundred years for- ward . We are now within hail of Alexander , and a brilliant consistory of Grecian men that is by which he is surrounded . There are now ...
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... Chaucer's . Everything in it seems in its place . A healthy sagacious man of the world has gone through the world ; he loves it , and knows it ; he dwells on it with fond appreciation ; every object of the old life of " merry England ...
... Chaucer's . Everything in it seems in its place . A healthy sagacious man of the world has gone through the world ; he loves it , and knows it ; he dwells on it with fond appreciation ; every object of the old life of " merry England ...
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... Chaucer , the hard marital selfishness of Milton , the brutality of Luther , the boorishness of Johnson , the ripe self- love of Wordsworth , the malice of Pope , the egoism of Goethe , the murky and selfish spleen of Carlyle , the ...
... Chaucer , the hard marital selfishness of Milton , the brutality of Luther , the boorishness of Johnson , the ripe self- love of Wordsworth , the malice of Pope , the egoism of Goethe , the murky and selfish spleen of Carlyle , the ...
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... Chaucer was transfused into his body , and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original ; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller own that he ...
... Chaucer was transfused into his body , and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease . Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original ; and many besides myself have heard our famous Waller own that he ...
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