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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... minds . A boyhood or youth passed in the days of Shakes- peare and Bacon , and a manhood in those of the Great Rebellion ... mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is ...
... minds . A boyhood or youth passed in the days of Shakes- peare and Bacon , and a manhood in those of the Great Rebellion ... mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is ...
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... mind by the melodious expression of his favourite fancies and contempla- tions . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and luminous . Robert Herrick , who was also ...
... mind by the melodious expression of his favourite fancies and contempla- tions . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and luminous . Robert Herrick , who was also ...
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... mind , And did not mean to stay behind Above an hour or so . When in he came , Dick , there she lay , Like new - fallen snow melting away : " Twas time , I trow , to part : Kisses were now the only stay , Which soon she gave , as who ...
... mind , And did not mean to stay behind Above an hour or so . When in he came , Dick , there she lay , Like new - fallen snow melting away : " Twas time , I trow , to part : Kisses were now the only stay , Which soon she gave , as who ...
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... mind , fervid , gorgeous , and soaring , but having little involun- tary impulsiveness or self - abandonment , rich as his style often is , it never moves with any degree of rapidity or easy grace even in passages where such qualities ...
... mind , fervid , gorgeous , and soaring , but having little involun- tary impulsiveness or self - abandonment , rich as his style often is , it never moves with any degree of rapidity or easy grace even in passages where such qualities ...
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... mind a famous passage in a poetical epistle written from the country by Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson , very early in the century , it is said , but not pub- lished , we believe , till it appeared in Shirley's edition of the collected ...
... mind a famous passage in a poetical epistle written from the country by Francis Beaumont to Ben Jonson , very early in the century , it is said , but not pub- lished , we believe , till it appeared in Shirley's edition of the collected ...
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