Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... Drama , for example , an exponent , to some extent , of the state of the national mind at the time , and is it not equally one of the influences which may be presumed to have modified that mind in the age which followed ? Nor is it to ...
... Drama , for example , an exponent , to some extent , of the state of the national mind at the time , and is it not equally one of the influences which may be presumed to have modified that mind in the age which followed ? Nor is it to ...
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... Dramatic Dialogue after the Restora- tion , 494 POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Spenser and Milton , 496 MATTHEW PRIOR , 535 Lampoon , 497 For my Own Monument , 536 · Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 497 Epitaph ...
... Dramatic Dialogue after the Restora- tion , 494 POETS . Translations of the Ancient Poets , 494 Spenser and Milton , 496 MATTHEW PRIOR , 535 Lampoon , 497 For my Own Monument , 536 · Dryden's Translation of Virgil , 497 Epitaph ...
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... dramatic , and not only prove his good sense , but exhibit no unfavourable specimens of his eloquence . In his description of the first crusade , he seems to change his usual character , and becomes not only enter- taining , but even ...
... dramatic , and not only prove his good sense , but exhibit no unfavourable specimens of his eloquence . In his description of the first crusade , he seems to change his usual character , and becomes not only enter- taining , but even ...
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... dramatic pieces on sacred subjects , which , to a modern taste , appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's ...
... dramatic pieces on sacred subjects , which , to a modern taste , appear utterly burlesque . Among these are plays on John the Baptist's preach- ing ; on the childhood , temptation , passion , and resurrection of Christ ; on the Lord's ...
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... drama , for instance , chiefly owed that en- couragement which it received under Elizabeth and her successors , to a ... dramatic writer . In 1557 , Sackville formed the de- sign of a poem , entitled The Mirrour for Magistrates , of ...
... drama , for instance , chiefly owed that en- couragement which it received under Elizabeth and her successors , to a ... dramatic writer . In 1557 , Sackville formed the de- sign of a poem , entitled The Mirrour for Magistrates , of ...
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