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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... Poetical Writers of the latter part of the Eighteenth Century 395 Burns 398 Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century . 426 433 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES . Wordsworth Coleridge Southey ' Scott • Crabbe ...
... Poetical Writers of the latter part of the Eighteenth Century 395 Burns 398 Remaining Literature of the Eighteenth Century . 426 433 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE LAST AGE OF THE GEORGES . Wordsworth Coleridge Southey ' Scott • Crabbe ...
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... poetical or untranslatable ) were all of them , it is worthy of observation , born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor VOL . II . B would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE ...
... poetical or untranslatable ) were all of them , it is worthy of observation , born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor VOL . II . B would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture MIDDLE AND LATTER PART OF THE ...
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... poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rapidly ; the personages are numerous , and there is a general ...
... poetical : his better characters , especially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ; he is never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rapidly ; the personages are numerous , and there is a general ...
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... poetical produce other than dramatic of the quarter of a century that elapsed from the death of James to the establish- ment of the Commonwealth , of very considerable amount . Giles and Phineas Fletcher were brothers , cousins of the ...
... poetical produce other than dramatic of the quarter of a century that elapsed from the death of James to the establish- ment of the Commonwealth , of very considerable amount . Giles and Phineas Fletcher were brothers , cousins of the ...
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... poetical capacity be regarded as mainly a writer for the populace . George Herbert , a younger brother of the celebrated Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury , was a clergyman . His volume , entitled The Temple , was first published soon ...
... poetical capacity be regarded as mainly a writer for the populace . George Herbert , a younger brother of the celebrated Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury , was a clergyman . His volume , entitled The Temple , was first published soon ...
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