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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... expressing lascivious mirth and levity , " - ordained , " that , while these sad causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be forborne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure ...
... expressing lascivious mirth and levity , " - ordained , " that , while these sad causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be forborne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure ...
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... expression of his favourite fancies and contempla- tions . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and luminous . Robert Herrick , who was also a clergyman , is the ...
... expression of his favourite fancies and contempla- tions . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and luminous . Robert Herrick , who was also a clergyman , is the ...
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... expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem - the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise ...
... expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem - the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise ...
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... expression is as correct and natural , and his numbers as harmonious , the music of his verse is richer , and his imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance ...
... expression is as correct and natural , and his numbers as harmonious , the music of his verse is richer , and his imagination is warmer and more florid . But the texture of his composition is in general extremely slight , the substance ...
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... expression is preserved throughout along with the forms of speech , as well as of thought , natural to the rustic narrator : -- I tell thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen : Oh things without compare ...
... expression is preserved throughout along with the forms of speech , as well as of thought , natural to the rustic narrator : -- I tell thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen : Oh things without compare ...
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