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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... Natural Philosophy • Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental The Royal Society The Steam Engine Science Newton James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton Establishment of the Royal Observatory Medical ...
... Natural Philosophy • Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental The Royal Society The Steam Engine Science Newton James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton Establishment of the Royal Observatory Medical ...
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... nature and propriety are violated in the principle and 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 ...
... nature and propriety are violated in the principle and 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 ...
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... natural expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem - the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did ...
... natural expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem - the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did ...
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... nature teems As a reserve for England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems The last age , and adorns your own ; What are you , now the Prince is gone ? As an obstructed fountain's head Cuts the entail off from the streams , And ...
... nature teems As a reserve for England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems The last age , and adorns your own ; What are you , now the Prince is gone ? As an obstructed fountain's head Cuts the entail off from the streams , And ...
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... Nature Study claimed a part , Yet who unto himself owed all his art ; Here lies Ben Jonson : every age will look With sorrow here , with wonder on his book . Elsewhere he thus expresses his preference for Jonson , as a dramatist , over ...
... Nature Study claimed a part , Yet who unto himself owed all his art ; Here lies Ben Jonson : every age will look With sorrow here , with wonder on his book . Elsewhere he thus expresses his preference for Jonson , as a dramatist , over ...
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