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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... greatest of it indeed - as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor - was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and ...
... greatest of it indeed - as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor - was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and ...
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... greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there ...
... greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there ...
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... greatest , who lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley ...
... greatest , who lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley ...
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... greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The other three all belong exclusively to the times of Charles I. and of the Commonwealth . Thomas Carew , styled on ...
... greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The other three all belong exclusively to the times of Charles I. and of the Commonwealth . Thomas Carew , styled on ...
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... greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some songs and other shorter pieces , several of ...
... greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some songs and other shorter pieces , several of ...
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