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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... CENTURY Shirley , and the end of the Old Drama Giles Fletcher ; Phineas Fletcher Other Religious Poets : -Quarles ; Herbert ; Herrick ; Crashaw Cartwright ; Randolph ; Corbet • Poets of the French School : -Carew ; Lovelace ; Suckling ...
... CENTURY Shirley , and the end of the Old Drama Giles Fletcher ; Phineas Fletcher Other Religious Poets : -Quarles ; Herbert ; Herrick ; Crashaw Cartwright ; Randolph ; Corbet • Poets of the French School : -Carew ; Lovelace ; Suckling ...
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... Century 121 English Science in the Seventeenth Century . - Bacon ; Napier 128 Other English Mathematicians of the earlier part of the Seven- teenth Century Harvey ; -The Circulation of the Blood - Anatomy , & c . Natural Philosophy ...
... Century 121 English Science in the Seventeenth Century . - Bacon ; Napier 128 Other English Mathematicians of the earlier part of the Seven- teenth Century Harvey ; -The Circulation of the Blood - Anatomy , & c . Natural Philosophy ...
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... Century 395 Burns 398 Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century . 426 433 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES . Wordsworth Coleridge Southey ' Scott • Crabbe ; Campbell ; Moore Byron Shelley Keats Hunt 435 456 473 ...
... Century 395 Burns 398 Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century . 426 433 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES . Wordsworth Coleridge Southey ' Scott • Crabbe ; Campbell ; Moore Byron Shelley Keats Hunt 435 456 473 ...
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... CENTURY . EXCLUDING from our view the productions of the last fifty or sixty years , as not yet ripe for the verdict of history , we may affirm that our national ... CENTURY MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY-continued.
... CENTURY . EXCLUDING from our view the productions of the last fifty or sixty years , as not yet ripe for the verdict of history , we may affirm that our national ... CENTURY MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY-continued.
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... century that elapsed from the death of James to the establish- ment of the Commonwealth , of very considerable amount . Giles and Phineas Fletcher were brothers , cousins of the dramatist , and both clergymen . Giles , who died in 1623 ...
... century that elapsed from the death of James to the establish- ment of the Commonwealth , of very considerable amount . Giles and Phineas Fletcher were brothers , cousins of the dramatist , and both clergymen . Giles , who died in 1623 ...
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