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Page vi
... history of the literature of the last century : many important authors , like Prior and Smollett , have but a word given them ; Fielding receives no full discus- sion ; and many other writers are not even mentioned . My aim , however ...
... history of the literature of the last century : many important authors , like Prior and Smollett , have but a word given them ; Fielding receives no full discus- sion ; and many other writers are not even mentioned . My aim , however ...
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... history certainly cannot find , let us say , in the arguments uttered a few years ago in Congress in favor of what was called the Force Law , an advance upon the position that was taken in Parliament , nearly two and a half centuries ...
... history certainly cannot find , let us say , in the arguments uttered a few years ago in Congress in favor of what was called the Force Law , an advance upon the position that was taken in Parliament , nearly two and a half centuries ...
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... history ; the humbler Latin deities surviving only in the simple faith of the rustics . The Greek arts found new patrons in Italy , and almost all Roman literature was made to follow Greek models . Horace's odes , Terence's plays ...
... history ; the humbler Latin deities surviving only in the simple faith of the rustics . The Greek arts found new patrons in Italy , and almost all Roman literature was made to follow Greek models . Horace's odes , Terence's plays ...
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... History of the Renaissance , " passim . Sylvester says " wool . " Cf. this phrase of Du Bartas , " monts enfa rinés d'une neige éternelle . " But see Sainte - Beuve , " Poésie du XVI . Siècle , " p . 68 . the affectations of the writers ...
... History of the Renaissance , " passim . Sylvester says " wool . " Cf. this phrase of Du Bartas , " monts enfa rinés d'une neige éternelle . " But see Sainte - Beuve , " Poésie du XVI . Siècle , " p . 68 . the affectations of the writers ...
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... history ; and it showed , too , in Milton's faults how narrowing it was . Milton's fame was something which depended a good deal on politics . After 1688 the Liberals admired him , * It would be interesting to study the gradual growth ...
... history ; and it showed , too , in Milton's faults how narrowing it was . Milton's fame was something which depended a good deal on politics . After 1688 the Liberals admired him , * It would be interesting to study the gradual growth ...
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