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... flush of the late Elizabethan efflorescence , but passes , as the century goes on , through a period of very independent and complex changes , determined in great measure by the religious and political his- tory PREFACE . ix.
... flush of the late Elizabethan efflorescence , but passes , as the century goes on , through a period of very independent and complex changes , determined in great measure by the religious and political his- tory PREFACE . ix.
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in great measure by the religious and political his- tory of the time , which it seems to me impossible to describe by any single term , be it disintegration with Mr Barrett Wendell , or decadence with Mr Gosse . Elizabethan literature ...
in great measure by the religious and political his- tory of the time , which it seems to me impossible to describe by any single term , be it disintegration with Mr Barrett Wendell , or decadence with Mr Gosse . Elizabethan literature ...
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... political importance and familiarity with its language . The student of Dutch literature in the seventeenth century will not find a drama comparable , strictly as drama , with that of England or France or Spain , nor an epic and ...
... political importance and familiarity with its language . The student of Dutch literature in the seventeenth century will not find a drama comparable , strictly as drama , with that of England or France or Spain , nor an epic and ...
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... political sentiment . The war - songs of the English Puritans a century later were the Psalms of David . The Dutch Calvinists expressed their feelings more directly in simple and moving descriptions of the sufferings of martyrs to the ...
... political sentiment . The war - songs of the English Puritans a century later were the Psalms of David . The Dutch Calvinists expressed their feelings more directly in simple and moving descriptions of the sufferings of martyrs to the ...
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... political sentiment . The war - songs of the English Puritans a century later were the Psalms of David . The Dutch Calvinists expressed their feelings more directly in simple and moving descriptions of the sufferings of martyrs to the ...
... political sentiment . The war - songs of the English Puritans a century later were the Psalms of David . The Dutch Calvinists expressed their feelings more directly in simple and moving descriptions of the sufferings of martyrs to the ...
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