Introduction to English Literature, Including a Number of Classic Works. With Notes |
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... mind . English literature is peculiarly adapted , in the hands of a competent teacher , to produce a genuine thirst for knowledge and culture - a thirst which once awakened rarely fails , in this age of books , to attain its end . But ...
... mind . English literature is peculiarly adapted , in the hands of a competent teacher , to produce a genuine thirst for knowledge and culture - a thirst which once awakened rarely fails , in this age of books , to attain its end . But ...
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... mind , And the joyless place beheld . He saw the dark clouds Perpetually press Black under the sky , Void and waste ; Till that this world's creation Through the word was done Of the King of Glory . " Though rude in form , Cædmon's ...
... mind , And the joyless place beheld . He saw the dark clouds Perpetually press Black under the sky , Void and waste ; Till that this world's creation Through the word was done Of the King of Glory . " Though rude in form , Cædmon's ...
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... mind , he treasured up all this varied knowledge , and utilized it with rare wisdom in after years . At the age of twenty - three he ascended the throne , and spent a considerable part of his subsequent life in con- flict with the Danes ...
... mind , he treasured up all this varied knowledge , and utilized it with rare wisdom in after years . At the age of twenty - three he ascended the throne , and spent a considerable part of his subsequent life in con- flict with the Danes ...
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... mind and intellectual acquisition . The revival of learning was an event of vast importance , not only in the intellectual life of England , but also of all Europe . It had its central point in the capture of Cor- stantinople by the ...
... mind and intellectual acquisition . The revival of learning was an event of vast importance , not only in the intellectual life of England , but also of all Europe . It had its central point in the capture of Cor- stantinople by the ...
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... mind is capable . To say noth- ing of minor writers , Hooker's " Ecclesiastical Polity " is a master - piece in the field of theology . Spenser's " Faery Queene , " with its unexampled richness of imagination , is a fountain from which ...
... mind is capable . To say noth- ing of minor writers , Hooker's " Ecclesiastical Polity " is a master - piece in the field of theology . Spenser's " Faery Queene , " with its unexampled richness of imagination , is a fountain from which ...
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