12) §4. William Henry Drummond. XI. English-Canadian Literature. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...The possibilities of wealth did not dismay him. What he craved was, in his own words, enough money to own a strip of salmon water, and the best Irish terrier going,...

13) §1. Characteristics of Folk-poetry. XVI. Transition English Song Collections. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...at home. The songs can therefore be regarded as more or less representative of the whole Middle English period. 2 Of the folk-song element, a word may well be said...

14) §7. Spenser s literary obligations to Mantuan, Vergil and Marot. XI. The Poetry of Spenser. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...his sad experiences. The satire, which reflects on the worldliness of the Anglican clergy, is more particular than that of Mantuan, and contains many personal allusions....

15) §2. Elements in the Rise of Nationalities—Patriotic Sentiment, Democratic Self-Government, National Resources as the means of . XV. Early Writings on Politics and Economics. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of political science in recent times have been inclined to classify and compare different types of polity, with the view of elucidating the strong points of each...

16) §4. His Satires. XI. John Donne. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...the Paradoxes and BIA[char]ANATO[char], to the circle of the poet s private friends. A Roman Catholic controversialist, replying to Pseudo-Martyr, expresses his regret...

17) XVI. London and the Development of Popular Literature: Bibliography. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...Hazlitt, W. C. 1871. Vol. IV, sections LXII—LXVI. CHARACTER WRITERS Anticipations of the Genre Vision concerning Piers the Plowman (allegorical portraits, ante, Vol....

18) §17. Walter Kennedy. X. The Scottish Chaucerians. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of this subordinate literature. 43 It is true we know little of the authors or of their works, but what we do know shows that to speak of nests of singing birds,...

19) Old Norse literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...history antedates that of all other modern European literatures except Gaelic. In the later 13th cent., with Iceland's loss of independence to Norway, literary activity...

20) d. Word Compounding. 8. Word Formation. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
...modifiers are generally hyphenated: fine-wine tasting, high-school teacher, hot-water bottle, minimum-wage worker, rare-book store, real-life experiences. If there...