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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... already gone over . The only other name that remains to be mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding ...
... already gone over . The only other name that remains to be mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding ...
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... already familiarly known in the country as well as in London . It may be sup- posed indeed that the town of Bosworth would be one of the first places in which this particular drama was represented out of the metropolis . As a sample of ...
... already familiarly known in the country as well as in London . It may be sup- posed indeed that the town of Bosworth would be one of the first places in which this particular drama was represented out of the metropolis . As a sample of ...
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... already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being ...
... already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being ...
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... already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be accounted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write ...
... already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be accounted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write ...
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... already mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after ages the world was to ...
... already mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after ages the world was to ...
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