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Page 175
... influence on David Hume , who carried them forward into the mainstream of European philo- sophic thought . The most ... influenced him deeply ; and his first book was a translation of a political treatise , De La Liberté et de la ...
... influence on David Hume , who carried them forward into the mainstream of European philo- sophic thought . The most ... influenced him deeply ; and his first book was a translation of a political treatise , De La Liberté et de la ...
Page 357
... influence of Branwell's tragedy may have had a strong effect on Emily's imagination ; for he had been ' driven to drink ' , his family believed , by an unhappy love - affair with his employer's wife , who had presently discarded him ...
... influence of Branwell's tragedy may have had a strong effect on Emily's imagination ; for he had been ' driven to drink ' , his family believed , by an unhappy love - affair with his employer's wife , who had presently discarded him ...
Page 445
... influence of contemporary French story- tellers , Zola , Maupassant and the brothers Goncourt ; and , having given up his hopes of succeeding in art , he determined that he would become a writer of the fashionable ' naturalist ' school ...
... influence of contemporary French story- tellers , Zola , Maupassant and the brothers Goncourt ; and , having given up his hopes of succeeding in art , he determined that he would become a writer of the fashionable ' naturalist ' school ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |