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A History of English Literature Rob
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I. PERIOD I. THE BRITONS AND THE AN
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Sympathy of the author for his char
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story; (3) a Rising Action; (4) a M
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is no proper connection either in s
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THE NOVEL. 'Sir Roger de Coverly,'
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CHAPTER I PERIOD I. THE BRITONS AND
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points on the eastern and southern
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may be mostly performed all at once
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Northumbria (Yorkshire and Southern
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CHAPTER II PERIOD II. THE NORMAN-FR
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and Anglo-Saxon were spoken separat
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eality the men of the Middle Ages w
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now. The next is the first stanza o
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northern Scots and Picts, and how t
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artist, who lived a century and mor
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'MANDEVILLE'S VOYAGE.' One of the e
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of prose tales, 'The Decameron' (Te
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sometimes even with the minuteness
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cherished by the Protestants for it
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transmitted, portions, as it were,
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full health in a later book a knigh
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emote spots down almost to the pres
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guild (though sometimes two or thre
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man. It shows how he yields to temp
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applications. Scientific investigat
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Lollardism, which had nearly been c
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Tyndale, a zealous Protestant contr
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5. Still another, minor, innovation
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later Renaissance craze, then rampa
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Ireland, where in satirical poems h
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inharmonious element in the otherwi
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authors so marked; almost every wri
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verse as ruggedly condensed (often
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to be reabsorbed into tragedy, of w
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zest for the beautiful. It is rich
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just to the north of the 'city,' on
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playwright and a good, though not a
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sure, with an unconventionality, ma
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BEN JONSON. The second place among
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3. Jonson's self-satisfaction and h
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alone or to Fletcher and other coll
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his personal ambition was often str
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market-place, due to mistaken relia
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of somewhat artificial courtliness
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The life of Henry Vaughan [Footnote
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the English Church might not have b
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through the medium of the secular e
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higher ... but I dare not. God did
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the demonstrable. Hence the charact
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of the times. Aside from the fact t
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or at least the couplets, generally
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consists throughout partly in the c
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definiteness and significant meanin
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collection of moralizings, is today
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'lived a double life' between the t
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their interests; the superior skill
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The few remaining years of Addison'
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Rosicrucian sylphs. In its adaptati
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than Christian [Footnote: The name
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vain man's boast.' 'Wind the shrill
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in 1762, when the ministers, decidi
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lack of sympathy for the romantic r
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anywhere, before Gibbon, since clas
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which statesmen and orators deal ar
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warmth of sympathetic imagination w
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triumph of Pseudo-classicism, as a
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interpretation which characterizes
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published two years later. Meanwhil
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of Macpherson's native Highlands--v
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his life had combined 'the cheerles
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and some recognition of its educati
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would render impossible at the pres
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Allworthy, intended as an example o
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followed Miss Burney, writing of th
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Charles Lamb, where Coleridge appea
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from eighteenth century tradition b
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Nature, especially inanimate Nature
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and prose who from his friendship w
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and so nearly attained his object t
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and Tennyson were to be among his s
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no comment. Whatever allowances cha
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poetry, was of the highest value to
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over action makes of it also only a
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The music, yearning like a God in p
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Political and social progress, thou
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man, though he was aggressive and s
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