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... human wit and wisdom . We cannot satisfactorily define literature any more than we can agree upon a point of view from which critics are to approach and comment upon it . Are they to treat the history of literature as a process and its ...
... human wit and wisdom . We cannot satisfactorily define literature any more than we can agree upon a point of view from which critics are to approach and comment upon it . Are they to treat the history of literature as a process and its ...
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... human intelligence . In defining these qualities , we can hardly do better , in the first place , than seek guidance from Dryden , the earliest and one of the best of English critics . Dryden's " Here is God's plenty " is still perhaps ...
... human intelligence . In defining these qualities , we can hardly do better , in the first place , than seek guidance from Dryden , the earliest and one of the best of English critics . Dryden's " Here is God's plenty " is still perhaps ...
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... humanity of soul Chaucer joined that mar- vellous power of speech which is the talisman of the great poet . For four out of the five centuries which have elapsed since his death , Chaucer's poems were so imperfectly tran- scribed and ...
... humanity of soul Chaucer joined that mar- vellous power of speech which is the talisman of the great poet . For four out of the five centuries which have elapsed since his death , Chaucer's poems were so imperfectly tran- scribed and ...
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... humanity renders Malory wan , attenuated and bloodless in comparison . Ascham and Latimer attacked its morals , and it went into a long eclipse from 1634 to 1816 ; but it emerged then to strike a priceless blow for purity and brevity in ...
... humanity renders Malory wan , attenuated and bloodless in comparison . Ascham and Latimer attacked its morals , and it went into a long eclipse from 1634 to 1816 ; but it emerged then to strike a priceless blow for purity and brevity in ...
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... human existence could not escape his saturnine humour ; yet he was well disposed to be cheerful , and even merry - witness his " Without Glaidnés availis no Tressour " and " For to be blythe me think it best . " From his Surrexit ...
... human existence could not escape his saturnine humour ; yet he was well disposed to be cheerful , and even merry - witness his " Without Glaidnés availis no Tressour " and " For to be blythe me think it best . " From his Surrexit ...
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