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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... perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is ...
... perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is ...
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... perhaps , more probable , however , that the statute had only in course of time come to be less rigidly en- forced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are informed by the historians of the stage , that , though the ...
... perhaps , more probable , however , that the statute had only in course of time come to be less rigidly en- forced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are informed by the historians of the stage , that , though the ...
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... perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called The Modern Patriot . Quarles , how- ever , though he appears to have been a person of considerable literary acquirement , must in his poetical ...
... perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called The Modern Patriot . Quarles , how- ever , though he appears to have been a person of considerable literary acquirement , must in his poetical ...
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... perhaps , after Donne , the 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 ...
... perhaps , after Donne , the 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 ...
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... perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise to his greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The other three all ...
... perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise to his greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The other three all ...
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