History of English Literature, Volume 1H. Holt, 1875 - English literature |
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... dreams and visions - Love poems - Troilus and Cressida - Exaggerated development of love in the middle age - Why the mind took this path - Mystic love - The Flower and the Leaf - Sensual love - Troilus and Cressida IV . Wherein Chaucer ...
... dreams and visions - Love poems - Troilus and Cressida - Exaggerated development of love in the middle age - Why the mind took this path - Mystic love - The Flower and the Leaf - Sensual love - Troilus and Cressida IV . Wherein Chaucer ...
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... you like it - Idea of existence - Midsummer Night's Dream— Idea of love - Harmony of all parts of the work - Harmony between the artist and his work · 393 · b INTRODUCTION The historian night place himself for a given period CONTENTS .
... you like it - Idea of existence - Midsummer Night's Dream— Idea of love - Harmony of all parts of the work - Harmony between the artist and his work · 393 · b INTRODUCTION The historian night place himself for a given period CONTENTS .
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... dreams , art , refined and nimble thought , are for the happy shores of the Mediterranean . Here the barbarian , ill housed in his mud - hovel , who hears the rain pattering whole days among the oak leaves - what dreams can he have ...
... dreams , art , refined and nimble thought , are for the happy shores of the Mediterranean . Here the barbarian , ill housed in his mud - hovel , who hears the rain pattering whole days among the oak leaves - what dreams can he have ...
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... dreams . He does not see it , but simply feels it ; his religion is already within , as it will be in the sixteenth century , when he will cast off the sensuous worship imported from Rome , and hallow the faith of the heart . His gods ...
... dreams . He does not see it , but simply feels it ; his religion is already within , as it will be in the sixteenth century , when he will cast off the sensuous worship imported from Rome , and hallow the faith of the heart . His gods ...
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... dreams ? Is there any which has so entirely banished from its dreams the sweetness of enjoyment , and the softness of pleasure ? Endeavors , tenacious and mournful endeavors , an ecstasy of en1 Thorpe , The Edda of Sæmund , Lay of Atli ...
... dreams ? Is there any which has so entirely banished from its dreams the sweetness of enjoyment , and the softness of pleasure ? Endeavors , tenacious and mournful endeavors , an ecstasy of en1 Thorpe , The Edda of Sæmund , Lay of Atli ...
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