English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 156
... praise , unless Spenser may divide it with him , of having first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English language could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe ...
... praise , unless Spenser may divide it with him , of having first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English language could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps sometimes scenes , which have all the delicacy of Rowe ...
Page 266
... praise there cannot well be , and it is the praise due to epic poetry of the 245 highest order only , and to no other . Let us try , then , the Chanson de Roland at its best . Roland , mortally wounded , lays himself down under a pine ...
... praise there cannot well be , and it is the praise due to epic poetry of the 245 highest order only , and to no other . Let us try , then , the Chanson de Roland at its best . Roland , mortally wounded , lays himself down under a pine ...
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... praise the fare of a modest board , praise wholesome justice , law , and peace with her open gates ; should keep secrets , and pray and beseech the gods that fortune may return to the unhappy , and depart from the proud . Not every ...
... praise the fare of a modest board , praise wholesome justice , law , and peace with her open gates ; should keep secrets , and pray and beseech the gods that fortune may return to the unhappy , and depart from the proud . Not every ...
Contents
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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