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... elegant in its style , and so discriminating in its thought . Throughout the volume references are made to Professor B. N. Martin's Choice Specimens of English and American Literature . The black - faced figures ( 1 ) refer to the ...
... elegant in its style , and so discriminating in its thought . Throughout the volume references are made to Professor B. N. Martin's Choice Specimens of English and American Literature . The black - faced figures ( 1 ) refer to the ...
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... elegance . His serious efforts in English are exceed- ingly heavy and tedious ; but his satiric writings , coarse and vulgar as they are , show so much force and spirit that they still retain some degree of popularity . The peculiar ...
... elegance . His serious efforts in English are exceed- ingly heavy and tedious ; but his satiric writings , coarse and vulgar as they are , show so much force and spirit that they still retain some degree of popularity . The peculiar ...
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... elegance . They give the earliest indications of the dawn of the brightest day that English literature had seen . Although unequal in merit , they possess so much in common , there is such marked similarity in their manner , that their ...
... elegance . They give the earliest indications of the dawn of the brightest day that English literature had seen . Although unequal in merit , they possess so much in common , there is such marked similarity in their manner , that their ...
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... elegance . The Arcadia , full of the spirit of chivalry , illustrates in its style the de- fects of that cuphuism to which we shall refer hereafter . The story , though it would be tedious to the devoted reader of Scott or Dick- ens ...
... elegance . The Arcadia , full of the spirit of chivalry , illustrates in its style the de- fects of that cuphuism to which we shall refer hereafter . The story , though it would be tedious to the devoted reader of Scott or Dick- ens ...
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... elegance of the great Italian poets . No man ever had a fonder love of the good and the beautiful ; no poem has a steadier radiance of goodness and beauty . There are no blazing passages of passion in Spen- ser's writing . " He has ...
... elegance of the great Italian poets . No man ever had a fonder love of the good and the beautiful ; no poem has a steadier radiance of goodness and beauty . There are no blazing passages of passion in Spen- ser's writing . " He has ...
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