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... John Gilpin , Saxe's Proud Miss McBride . PROSE . - Prose is composition without metre or rhyme . It is of nine kinds , -History , Biography , Novels , Travels , Letters , Reviews , Essays , Treatises , and Discourses . History is a ...
... John Gilpin , Saxe's Proud Miss McBride . PROSE . - Prose is composition without metre or rhyme . It is of nine kinds , -History , Biography , Novels , Travels , Letters , Reviews , Essays , Treatises , and Discourses . History is a ...
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... JOHN GOWER ( 1320 ? -1402 ) , called by Chaucer " Moral Gower , " author of a long , tedious poem entitled Confessio Amantis ( A Lover's Confession ) . SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ( 1300-1372 ) , author of a book of Travels . PERIOD II . - AGE ...
... JOHN GOWER ( 1320 ? -1402 ) , called by Chaucer " Moral Gower , " author of a long , tedious poem entitled Confessio Amantis ( A Lover's Confession ) . SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE ( 1300-1372 ) , author of a book of Travels . PERIOD II . - AGE ...
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... JOHN SKELTON ( 1460-1529 ) , a satirical poet , first " Poet- Laureate , " tutor to the Duke of York , afterwards Henry VIII . , author of Colin Clout , Book of the Sparrow , etc. SIR THOMAS Wyatt ( 1503–1542 ) , a statesman and lyric ...
... JOHN SKELTON ( 1460-1529 ) , a satirical poet , first " Poet- Laureate , " tutor to the Duke of York , afterwards Henry VIII . , author of Colin Clout , Book of the Sparrow , etc. SIR THOMAS Wyatt ( 1503–1542 ) , a statesman and lyric ...
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... John Milton and John Bunyan . MILTON . 1608-1674 . John Milton , the greatest of English poets since Shakspeare , was born in 1608 , and died in 1674. Having spent seven years at the university and five years in studious retirement at ...
... John Milton and John Bunyan . MILTON . 1608-1674 . John Milton , the greatest of English poets since Shakspeare , was born in 1608 , and died in 1674. Having spent seven years at the university and five years in studious retirement at ...
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... John Bunyan , at first a poor , profane tinker , wrote , after his conversion , and while confined in Bedford jail , the greatest alle- gory in the world , Pilgrim's Progress . It has been translated into nearly every language , and has ...
... John Bunyan , at first a poor , profane tinker , wrote , after his conversion , and while confined in Bedford jail , the greatest alle- gory in the world , Pilgrim's Progress . It has been translated into nearly every language , and has ...
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