A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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George Lillie Craik. HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . CONTENTS . VOL . II . PAGE MIDDLE AND LATTER.
George Lillie Craik. HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . CONTENTS . VOL . II . PAGE MIDDLE AND LATTER.
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... ( William ) Prose Writers : -Charles I. Milton's Prose Works . Hales ; Chillingworth . Jeremy Taylor Fuller . · Feltham's Resolves : -Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne 23 32 43 47 49 52 52 53 63 67 Sir James Harrington 70 Newspapers 70 ...
... ( William ) Prose Writers : -Charles I. Milton's Prose Works . Hales ; Chillingworth . Jeremy Taylor Fuller . · Feltham's Resolves : -Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne 23 32 43 47 49 52 52 53 63 67 Sir James Harrington 70 Newspapers 70 ...
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... William Dave- nant , without molestation , exhibited entertainments of declama- tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury ...
... William Dave- nant , without molestation , exhibited entertainments of declama- tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury ...
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... William Browne , the author of Britannia's Pastorals , of which the first part was published in 1613 , the second in 1616 , and of The Shepherd's Pipe in Seven Eclogues , which appeared in 1614. Browne was a native of Tavistock in ...
... William Browne , the author of Britannia's Pastorals , of which the first part was published in 1613 , the second in 1616 , and of The Shepherd's Pipe in Seven Eclogues , which appeared in 1614. Browne was a native of Tavistock in ...
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... is too rhe- torical and amplified , the periods too artificially elaborated . None but scholars and practised writers employ such a style as this . ' " " # It is not improbable CHARLES I. 47 Browne (William) Prose Writers :-Charles I.
... is too rhe- torical and amplified , the periods too artificially elaborated . None but scholars and practised writers employ such a style as this . ' " " # It is not improbable CHARLES I. 47 Browne (William) Prose Writers :-Charles I.
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