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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... feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in with the Restoration . " * Of this writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few ...
... feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in with the Restoration . " * Of this writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few ...
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... feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite gro- tesque ; and , on the whole , it is fantastic , puerile , and wearisome . Mr. Hallam thinks that Giles Fletcher , in his poem of ...
... feeling , nor without some passages of considerable merit . But in many other parts it is quite gro- tesque ; and , on the whole , it is fantastic , puerile , and wearisome . Mr. Hallam thinks that Giles Fletcher , in his poem of ...
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... feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I watch all ...
... feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I watch all ...
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... feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author ...
... feeling , and a fuller swell of verse . The spirit of the same classical style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author ...
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... feeling , and an evident familiarity with the highest models . Here are a few of its more striking verses : - Nature and law , by thy divine decree The only sort of righteous royalty , With this dim diadem invested me . The fiercest ...
... feeling , and an evident familiarity with the highest models . Here are a few of its more striking verses : - Nature and law , by thy divine decree The only sort of righteous royalty , With this dim diadem invested me . The fiercest ...
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