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... reader , and that will repay the deepest attention . His greatest works come near to tragedy . Le Tartufe , in spite of its patched - up happy ending , leaves an im- pression of horror upon the mind . Don Juan seems to inculcate a ...
... reader , and that will repay the deepest attention . His greatest works come near to tragedy . Le Tartufe , in spite of its patched - up happy ending , leaves an im- pression of horror upon the mind . Don Juan seems to inculcate a ...
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... reader to believe it . And here precisely similar considerations apply , as in the case of Racine's dramatic method . In both instances the English reader is looking for variety , surprise , elaboration ; and when he is given , instead ...
... reader to believe it . And here precisely similar considerations apply , as in the case of Racine's dramatic method . In both instances the English reader is looking for variety , surprise , elaboration ; and when he is given , instead ...
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... reader of the greatest of his English con- temporaries , Milton . The pompous , rolling , resound- ing sentences follow one another in a long solemnity , borne forward by a vast movement of eloquence which underlies , controls , and ...
... reader of the greatest of his English con- temporaries , Milton . The pompous , rolling , resound- ing sentences follow one another in a long solemnity , borne forward by a vast movement of eloquence which underlies , controls , and ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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