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The poetry of Chaucer has a religious sanctity about it connected with the manners and superstitions of the age . It has all the spirit of martyrdom . It has also all the extravagance and the utmost licentiousness of comic humour ...
The poetry of Chaucer has a religious sanctity about it connected with the manners and superstitions of the age . It has all the spirit of martyrdom . It has also all the extravagance and the utmost licentiousness of comic humour ...
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If Voltaire's licentiousness is objected to me , I say , let it be placed to its true account , the manners of the age and court in which he lived . The lords and ladies of the bedchamber in the reign of Louis XV found no fault with the ...
If Voltaire's licentiousness is objected to me , I say , let it be placed to its true account , the manners of the age and court in which he lived . The lords and ladies of the bedchamber in the reign of Louis XV found no fault with the ...
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... Mr Bowles very properly distinguishes from manners , inasmuch as they are not in the power of the will to regulate or satisfy ) , are still left as a subject for something very different from didactic , or mock - heroic , poetry .
... Mr Bowles very properly distinguishes from manners , inasmuch as they are not in the power of the will to regulate or satisfy ) , are still left as a subject for something very different from didactic , or mock - heroic , poetry .
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ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER | 31 |
ON SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON | 67 |
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