He at first doubted the truth of assertions so unprecedented in literary history, as those by which the genuineness of the poems was maintained.
The exuberance of his fertile pen, the strangeness and the manner of his subjects, and his pertinacity in voluminous publication, are known, and are nearly unparalleled in literary history.
All this is so true in literary history, that he who affects to suspect the sincerity of Pope's declaration, may flatter his sagacity, but will do no credit to his knowledge.
But to proceed with our Literary Conspiracy, which was conducted by Stuart with a pertinacity of invention perhaps not to be paralleled in literary history.
Morhof appears to have had the method of Possevin in some measure before his eyes; but the lapse of a century, so rich in erudition as the seventeenth, had prodigiously enlarged the sphere of literary history.
Bayle’s Dictionary, published in 1697, seems at first sight an inexhaustible magazine of literary history.
I hardly know any other instance in literary history of a similar resistance offered to a similar tide of literary influence in Europe.
The characteristics of this strange and interesting school may be summed up briefly, but are of the highest importance in literary history.
The majority of the too celebrated "jests" attributed to George Peele are directly traceable to Villon's Repues Franches and similar compilations, and have a suspiciously mythical and traditional air to the student of literary history.
The general excitement created by the dispersal of the Roxburghe collection proved an epoch in literary history, by the establishment of the Roxburghe Club, followed by a series of others, the history of which has to be told farther on.
The mere printers' blunders that have been committed upon editions of the Bible are reverenced in literary history; and one edition--the Vulgate issued under the authority of Sixtus V.
One of the main objects of literary history is to separate what is quotidian from what is not.
It also holds examinations in Literary History, Bibliography and Library Economy, and issues certificates and diplomas.
Med Blyanten, in 1890; and is also the author of various works on literary history.
In the case of some of the older books which form landmarks in literary history, it is absolutely necessary to have well-edited modern reprints for the benefit of the students who are being formed in every school in the kingdom.
Books on literary history, bibliography and librarianship are tools, and should never be discarded.
The scene where Fenice feigns death in order to rejoin her lover is a parallel of many others in literary history, and will, of course, suggest the situation in Romeo and Juliet.
The old city of Troyes, where she held her court, must be set down large in any map of literary history.
The existence of the literary demand and this discovery of the material for its prompt satisfaction is one of the most remarkable coincidences in literary history.
His humanity is without parallel in literary history.
No person who is not familiar with the political and literary history of England during the reigns of William the Third, of Anne, and of George the First, can possibly write a good life of Addison.
We have thought it worth while to rescue from oblivion this curious fragment of literary history.
But the coincidences of opinion between the ancient and the modern writer are among the most remarkable in literary history.
Those that bear on the progress of his suit mark it as the strangest and, when we look before and after, one of the saddest courtships in literary history.
Chaucer, the Father of English Poetry," is the third of Miss Mappin's series of articles on literary history.
Miss Mappin, in her article on Milton, displays her ample knowledge of literary history, and even more than her customary fluency.
Juvenal, we behold the foremost satirist in literary history.
Renan very wisely, "never does a foreigner satisfy the nation whose history he writes"; and this is as true of literary history as of history proper.
It is, despite the interludes of literary history, as full of Borrow's peculiar conversational gift as any of its predecessors.
His actual experience is one of those puzzles which continually meet the student of literary history in the days when society was much smaller, the makers of literature fewer, and the resources of patronage greater.
Michault is the writer of two volumes of agreeable "Melanges Historiques et Philologiques;" and the present is a very curious piece of literary history.
As there is an association of ideas, so in literary history there is an association of research; and a very judicious writer may thus be impelled to compose on subjects which may be deemed strange or injudicious.
Few sympathise with the quarrels of authors; and since Erasmus has written a far better book than Polydore Vergil's, the original "Adagia" is left only to be commemorated in literary history as one of its curiosities.
We see no convincing reason for departing from the accepted theory, as expressed by Duff (A Literary History of Rome, pp.
A very excellent discussion is contained in Duff, A Literary History of Rome (N.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literary history" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
