Footnote: That is, students of the humanities, or polite literature.
Another of the good effects of Feudalism was the impulse it gave to certain forms of polite literature.
Polite literature, however, and especially poetry, was the most favored intellectual medium.
Sidenote: The triumph of Castilian in polite literature.
The influence of Humanism and the impulse of the Renaissance were more directly felt in polite literature than in didactic and scientific works.
Sidenote: Struggle of the Catalan, Latin, and Castilian languages for predominance in polite literature.
But their chief offences were the interposing obstacles to the revival of polite literature, and to the free expansion of the mind.
But Queen Anne being snatched suddenly from the world, the Whigs were resolved to ruin the protectors of the intended academy, a circumstance that was of the most fatal consequence to polite literature.
The Court methinks at this time seems to have given into a taste quite opposite to that of polite literature, but perhaps the mode of thinking may be revived in a little time.
Polite literature has in a good degree given way to experimental philosophy.
While Mrs. Carlton is advancing her husband's relish for books of piety, he is forming hers to polite literature.
She was celebrated for her knowledge and taste in polite literature.
We now turn to writers whose controversy was kindled only by subjects of polite literature.
His acute genius, and ardent application, rivalled those poetic models which he admired; and Boccaccio was thirty-five years of age when he commenced his studies in polite literature.
I will give a notion of the work:-- The author very truly observes, that all who apply themselves to polite literature do not always find from their own funds a sufficient supply to insure success.
Treatise on the Study of Polite Literature, containing the history of learning, directions for editions, commentaries, &c.
His Dictionary, his moral Essays, and his productions in polite literature, will convey useful instruction, and elegant entertainment, as long as the language in which they are written shall be understood.
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