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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... born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor VOL . II . B would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY-continued.
... born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor VOL . II . B would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY-continued.
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... born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding , was published in 1629. He is the author of about forty dramatic pieces which have come down to " Shirley , " observes Lamb , " claims a place among the ...
... born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding , was published in 1629. He is the author of about forty dramatic pieces which have come down to " Shirley , " observes Lamb , " claims a place among the ...
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... born in 1582 , became famous both as a poet and as a wit early in the reign of James ; but very little , if any , of his poetry was published till after his death , which took place in 1635 . The first edition of his Poems appeared in ...
... born in 1582 , became famous both as a poet and as a wit early in the reign of James ; but very little , if any , of his poetry was published till after his death , which took place in 1635 . The first edition of his Poems appeared in ...
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... born at Loughborough in that county in 1613. Down to the breaking out of the civil war , he resided at St. John's College , Cambridge , of which he was a Fellow , and seems to have distinguished him- self principally by his Latin poetry ...
... born at Loughborough in that county in 1613. Down to the breaking out of the civil war , he resided at St. John's College , Cambridge , of which he was a Fellow , and seems to have distinguished him- self principally by his Latin poetry ...
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... born in 1588 , covers nearly eighty years of the seventeenth century with his life , and not very far from sixty with his works : his first publi- cation , his volume of satires entitled Abuses Stript and Whipt , having appeared in 1611 ...
... born in 1588 , covers nearly eighty years of the seventeenth century with his life , and not very far from sixty with his works : his first publi- cation , his volume of satires entitled Abuses Stript and Whipt , having appeared in 1611 ...
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