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Example sentences for "modern literature"

  • Turning now to modern literature, we have cases of marvelous abstinence well substantiated by authoritative evidence.

  • There are several cases among the older writers in which odors are said to have produced abortion, but as analogues are not to be found in modern literature, unless the odor is very poisonous or pungent, we can give them but little credence.

  • Modern literature is full of examples, and nearly every one of the foregoing instances could be paralleled from other sources.

  • Nothing in modern literature is more amazing than the bulk of English criticism in the last three-quarters of a century, so far as it concerned individual writers, both in poetry and prose.

  • A period of less than twenty-five years covers the production of all those comedies and histories which are the wonder of modern literature.

  • There is an excellent Saga literature, and the beginnings of a modern literature.

  • This phrase is often used in modern literature.

  • Since the first publication of this work in 1860, many new names have appeared in modern literature.

  • One finds a power of ironic brilliance and of unexpected harmonic transformations certainly new in modern literature.

  • Tchaikowsky was widely read in modern literature--Dickens and Thackeray being favorite authors--and had travelled much.

  • This last is considered by the writer the most exquisite song in modern literature; its melody, its modulations, its accompaniment alike are flawless.

  • Its only fault is that it is far too short, and this is a fault so rare in modern literature that it almost amounts to a distinction.

  • It fascinates in spite of its form and pleases in spite of its pedantry, and is the nearest approach, that we know of, in modern literature to meeting Aristotle at an afternoon tea.

  • It would be, perhaps, too much to say that Miss Levy has distinction; this is the rarest quality in modern literature, though not a few of its masters are modern; but she has many other qualities which are admirable.

  • The Poetica, in which he reduced Horace and Aristotle to Italian prose, and laid down laws for adapting modern literature to antique system, had a wide and lasting influence.

  • It is as though the great Saturnian mother, exhausted by the production of Rome and all that Rome implied through Empire and through Papacy for Europe, had little force left but for amenities and subtleties in modern literature.

  • La Casa's name is best known in modern literature by his treatise on the manners of the finished gentleman.

  • This is perhaps the first occasion in modern literature in which Aristotle is definitely regarded as a literary dictator, and the dictatorship of Aristotle in literature may, therefore, be dated from the year 1561.

  • The first reference in modern literature to the doctrine of the unity of time is to be found in Giraldi Cintio's Discorso sulle Comedie e sulle Tragedie.

  • The debt of modern literature to Italian criticism is therefore not slight.

  • They are not widely known, they have had no share in establishing the forms or giving vogue to the commonplaces of modern literature.

  • To know the best that has been thought and said by the modern nations, is to know, says Professor Huxley, "only what modern literatures have to tell us; it is the criticism of life contained in modern literature.

  • At any rate we may lay it down as certain that in modern literature no manifestation of the creative power not working with these can be very important or fruitful.

  • Independently of their achievements in modern literature, we have to regard the humanistic efforts of these two great writers as a sign that the national element had asserted itself in antagonism to the Church and chivalry.

  • It is the first attempt in modern literature to portray subjective emotion exterior to the writer.

  • Pandaro shows for the first time in modern literature an utterly depraved nature, reveling in seduction, and glutting a licentious imagination with the spectacle of satiated lust.

  • He is the first finished humoristic portrait sketched in modern literature, the first broadly-conceived and jovially-executed Rabelaisian study.

  • He is read to-day in the elementary schools of Italy (in emendated editions), and his influence on modern literature is incalculable.

  • Ariosto's literary work consists of comedies, which are among the very first of modern literature; satires and the Orlando Furioso (Mad Roland).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    deeply interested; half cupful; heavy soils; inches high; living being; modern date; modern education; modern geography; modern history; modern language; modern library; modern literature; modern love; modern maps; modern medicine; modern money; modern music; modern nations; modern painting; modern poets; modern scientific; modern theology; modern times; natural order; practical application; private school