Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... COURT MASQUES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , 198 Page. To the Memory of my Beloved Master , William Shak- The Votaress of Diana , speare , and what he hath left us , 115 WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT , On the Portrait of Shakspeare , 115 To a Lady ...
... COURT MASQUES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , 198 Page. To the Memory of my Beloved Master , William Shak- The Votaress of Diana , speare , and what he hath left us , 115 WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT , On the Portrait of Shakspeare , 115 To a Lady ...
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... COURT MASQUES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , 198 Page 275 275 275 276 276 277 277 277 278. The Praise of a Solitary Life , To a Nightingale , Sonnets , SIR ROBERT AYTON , On Woman's Inconstancy , Disinterestedness of Biancha , Page 160 ...
... COURT MASQUES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY , 198 Page 275 275 275 276 276 277 277 277 278. The Praise of a Solitary Life , To a Nightingale , Sonnets , SIR ROBERT AYTON , On Woman's Inconstancy , Disinterestedness of Biancha , Page 160 ...
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... Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 The Hare and Many Friends , 574 ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN , 625 The Lion , the Tiger , and the Traveller , 574 JONATHAN SWIFT , 626 Sweet William's Farewell to Black - Eyed Susan , 575 ...
... Court of Death , 574 Pomp and Superfluity , 625 The Hare and Many Friends , 574 ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN , 625 The Lion , the Tiger , and the Traveller , 574 JONATHAN SWIFT , 626 Sweet William's Farewell to Black - Eyed Susan , 575 ...
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... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes tractions which followed , and the paucity of any striking poetical genius for at least a century and a half after his death , too ...
... court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar with different modes tractions which followed , and the paucity of any striking poetical genius for at least a century and a half after his death , too ...
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... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
... Court of Love was written about the year 1346 ) ; and Boccaccio ( more poetical in his prose than his verse ) had composed that inimitable century of tales , his Decameron , in which the charms of romance are clothed in all the pure and ...
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