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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... mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding , was published in 1629. He is the author of about forty ...
... mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the comedy of The Wedding , was published in 1629. He is the author of about forty ...
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... mentioned , however , to the honour of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that imitations of some passages in each are to be traced in his poetry . Milton was undoubtedly a ...
... mentioned , however , to the honour of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that imitations of some passages in each are to be traced in his poetry . Milton was undoubtedly a ...
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... mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught ...
... mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught ...
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... mentioned a contemporary poet of a 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 ...
... mentioned a contemporary poet of a 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 ...
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... mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after ages the world was to resound ...
... mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after ages the world was to resound ...
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