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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... the sixteenth century . His principal work is the Can- terbury Tales . It consists of twenty - four stories supposed to have been told by a company of pilgrims on their way 10 COMMON - SCHOOL LITERATURE . -AGE OF CHAUCER.
... the sixteenth century . His principal work is the Can- terbury Tales . It consists of twenty - four stories supposed to have been told by a company of pilgrims on their way 10 COMMON - SCHOOL LITERATURE . -AGE OF CHAUCER.
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... principal work is The Faerie Queene , a long allegory in six books , setting forth the excellence of holiness , temperance , chastity , justice , courtesy , and friendship , under the guise of knights . It is distinguished for the ...
... principal work is The Faerie Queene , a long allegory in six books , setting forth the excellence of holiness , temperance , chastity , justice , courtesy , and friendship , under the guise of knights . It is distinguished for the ...
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... principal poetical works are - Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , Samson Agonistes ( a drama ) , Comus ( a masque ) , L'Al- legro , Il Penseroso , Hymn to the Nativity . The best of his prose works is Areopagitica , a Plea for Un ...
... principal poetical works are - Paradise Lost , Paradise Regained , Samson Agonistes ( a drama ) , Comus ( a masque ) , L'Al- legro , Il Penseroso , Hymn to the Nativity . The best of his prose works is Areopagitica , a Plea for Un ...
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... principal poems are Alexander's Feast ; Absalom and Achitophel , a political satire ; The Hind ana Panther , a poem in defence of the Catholic Church ; and a Trans lation of Virgil's Æneid . EXTRACTS . I. Men are but children of a ...
... principal poems are Alexander's Feast ; Absalom and Achitophel , a political satire ; The Hind ana Panther , a poem in defence of the Catholic Church ; and a Trans lation of Virgil's Æneid . EXTRACTS . I. Men are but children of a ...
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... principal works are the Essay on Criticism , Essay on Man , Rape of the Lock ( the finest mock - heroic poem in the language ) , The Dunciad ( a satire ) , and a Translation of Homer . EXTRACTS . I. Charms strike the sight , but merit ...
... principal works are the Essay on Criticism , Essay on Man , Rape of the Lock ( the finest mock - heroic poem in the language ) , The Dunciad ( a satire ) , and a Translation of Homer . EXTRACTS . I. Charms strike the sight , but merit ...
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