Common-school Literature, English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to be MemorizedContains a short sketch about Eugene Field and his work (p. 123-124). |
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... chief literary representative of this age is our first great poet , Geoffrey Chaucer . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400 ) , known as " the father of English poetry , " was not only the earliest of our great poets , but ...
... chief literary representative of this age is our first great poet , Geoffrey Chaucer . GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1340-1400 ) , known as " the father of English poetry , " was not only the earliest of our great poets , but ...
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... chief literary events of the age were the rise and marvellous development of the English drama , and the revision of the English Bible ( Protestant version ) under King James , in 1611 . Its chief historical events were the restoration ...
... chief literary events of the age were the rise and marvellous development of the English drama , and the revision of the English Bible ( Protestant version ) under King James , in 1611 . Its chief historical events were the restoration ...
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... chief defect was a lack of high principle . He wrote for present gain and popularity , not because he had any great message to deliver . Hence , though he was endowed with genius of the high- est order , his life was comparatively a ...
... chief defect was a lack of high principle . He wrote for present gain and popularity , not because he had any great message to deliver . Hence , though he was endowed with genius of the high- est order , his life was comparatively a ...
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... chief prose works are his contributions to The Ram- bler , Rasselas ( a romance ) , Lives of the Poets , and an English Dictionary . The latter was a prodigious work for one man , and forms an enduring monument to his learning and ...
... chief prose works are his contributions to The Ram- bler , Rasselas ( a romance ) , Lives of the Poets , and an English Dictionary . The latter was a prodigious work for one man , and forms an enduring monument to his learning and ...
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... chief title to fame rests upon his great History of Eng- land , in six volumes , from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the expulsion of James II . , known as the Revolution of 1688 . Upon its completion , in 1762 , it was universally ...
... chief title to fame rests upon his great History of Eng- land , in six volumes , from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the expulsion of James II . , known as the Revolution of 1688 . Upon its completion , in 1762 , it was universally ...
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