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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... genius in himself , as that he was the last of a great race , all of whom spoke nearly the same language , and had a set of moral feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in ...
... genius in himself , as that he was the last of a great race , all of whom spoke nearly the same language , and had a set of moral feelings and notions in common . A new language and quite a new turn of tragic and comic interest came in ...
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... genius that of Cleveland seems to have strongly sym- pathised : - The Muses ' fairest light in no dark time ; The wonder of a learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportioned wit To nature ; the best judge of what was ...
... genius that of Cleveland seems to have strongly sym- pathised : - The Muses ' fairest light in no dark time ; The wonder of a learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportioned wit To nature ; the best judge of what was ...
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... genius for public affairs , and that things had very little chance of going right unless he were employed . With his head full of this conceit , it mattered comparatively little on which side he took his stand to begin with : he would ...
... genius for public affairs , and that things had very little chance of going right unless he were employed . With his head full of this conceit , it mattered comparatively little on which side he took his stand to begin with : he would ...
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... genius , or at least of a manner , in some respects kindred to his , and whose fate it has been to experience the same long neglect , William Browne , the author of Britannia's Pastorals , of which the first part was published in 1613 ...
... genius , or at least of a manner , in some respects kindred to his , and whose fate it has been to experience the same long neglect , William Browne , the author of Britannia's Pastorals , of which the first part was published in 1613 ...
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... genius may also very probably have been the reason why he so soon ceased to write and publish . From the time when religious and political contention began to wax high , in the latter years of King James , such poetry as Browne's had ...
... genius may also very probably have been the reason why he so soon ceased to write and publish . From the time when religious and political contention began to wax high , in the latter years of King James , such poetry as Browne's had ...
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