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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... manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury Lane , where he performed until the eve of the Restoration . " † Rutland House was in Charter House Square ...
... manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury Lane , where he performed until the eve of the Restoration . " † Rutland House was in Charter House Square ...
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... manner . Such a work as this has no claim to be considered a poem even of the same sort with the Fairy Queen . In Spenser , the allegory , whether historical or moral , is little more than formal : the poem , taken in its natural and ...
... manner . Such a work as this has no claim to be considered a poem even of the same sort with the Fairy Queen . In Spenser , the allegory , whether historical or moral , is little more than formal : the poem , taken in its natural and ...
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... manner of the composition , or in regard to the spirit and general success of the execution . Of course , there is a good deal of ingenuity shown in Fletcher's poem ; and it is not unimpregnated by poetic feeling , nor without some ...
... manner of the composition , or in regard to the spirit and general success of the execution . Of course , there is a good deal of ingenuity shown in Fletcher's poem ; and it is not unimpregnated by poetic feeling , nor without some ...
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... manner , and fondness for conceits both of sound and sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics - for of such strange intermixture does his poetry consist - are beautifully simple and natural ...
... manner , and fondness for conceits both of sound and sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics - for of such strange intermixture does his poetry consist - are beautifully simple and natural ...
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... manner , however , was begun to be made long before the expiration of that term . And , as we had received the malady from one foreign literature , so we were indebted for the cure to another . It is commonly assumed that our modern ...
... manner , however , was begun to be made long before the expiration of that term . And , as we had received the malady from one foreign literature , so we were indebted for the cure to another . It is commonly assumed that our modern ...
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