From jest to earnest
Author : Edward Payson Roe
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Edward Payson Roe
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Edward Payson Roe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Fiction
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This is a Victorian-era American novel. It features a plot hatched by a very popular young belle who seems to have all men adore her, and who decides to ensnare a new visitor ( who happens to be a pastor) just for fun and to amuse her friends. Her plan, however, comes unstuck and does not go the way she thought it would.
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : José da Fonseca
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
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English as she is spoke by Jose de Fonseca is a befuddled Portuguese-to-English dictionary which was intentionally published as a humorous guide. Excerpt: "A choice of familiar dialogues, clean of gallicisms, and despoiled phrases, it was missing yet to studious Portuguese and Brazilian Youth; and also to persons of others nations, that wish to know the Portuguese language. We sought all we may do, to correct that want, composing and devising the present little work in two parts."
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Thomas Dekker
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1842
Category : English poetry
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Author : Raymond A. Anselment
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1979-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442633034
Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift are among the best prose satirists in a remarkably rich literary era. Focusing on these key figures, ‘Betwixt Jest and Earnest’ examines the theory and practice of religious prose in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Recognizing the difficulties inherent in attempting to transform unimaginative animadversion into effective satire, it analyses the ways in which Marprelate’s tracts, Milton’s anti-prelatical satires, Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transpros’d, and Swift’s A Tale of a Tub variously resolve the decorum of religious satire. Although the study is not specifically an intellectual history or a rigid definition of religious attitudes towards jest, it does bring together basic symptoms of altering sensibilities in the period. Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, and Swift represent diverse religious dispositions, but they share a similar satiric vision. Each recognizes the central importance of manner, and all develop dramatic satire heavily dependent on character, an emphasis which often displaces the immediate issues contested, but never obscures the larger concerns the satirists pursue. Their preoccupations with the nature of tradition, their emphasis on the self, and their sensitivity to language reflect similar involvements in questions of certainty and absolutism. The virtues and abuses they find in such central questions are not unique to them or their time, but their emphases are, for they wrote in an age in which sensitive men could confront revolution and reaction with an assurance not easily attainable once that era had passed.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
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Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 1843
Category : Almanacs, English
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Author : Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Digital images
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