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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... popular as well as voluminous writers of the day , and is still generally known by his volume of Emblems . His verses are characterized by ingenuity rather than fancy , but , although often absurd , he is seldom dull or languid . There ...
... popular as well as voluminous writers of the day , and is still generally known by his volume of Emblems . His verses are characterized by ingenuity rather than fancy , but , although often absurd , he is seldom dull or languid . There ...
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... Popular Antiquities ( edit . of 1841 ) , i . 95 ; where the present verse is strangely quoted in illustration of this popular notion from " a rare book entitled Recreation for Ingenious Head Pieces , & c . , 8vo . Lon . 1667. " Her lips ...
... Popular Antiquities ( edit . of 1841 ) , i . 95 ; where the present verse is strangely quoted in illustration of this popular notion from " a rare book entitled Recreation for Ingenious Head Pieces , & c . , 8vo . Lon . 1667. " Her lips ...
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... popular verse - writer of his own day , the most neglected of all his contemporaries ever since . Among the one hundred and sixty - one poets , from Robert of Gloucester to Sir Francis Fane , whose choicest relics furnish out Ellis's ...
... popular verse - writer of his own day , the most neglected of all his contemporaries ever since . Among the one hundred and sixty - one poets , from Robert of Gloucester to Sir Francis Fane , whose choicest relics furnish out Ellis's ...
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... popular taste of the day , but would little lead a modern reader to expect the nervous concentration and passionate ear- nestness of such verses as the following : - The time draws near , and hasteth on , In which strange works shall be ...
... popular taste of the day , but would little lead a modern reader to expect the nervous concentration and passionate ear- nestness of such verses as the following : - The time draws near , and hasteth on , In which strange works shall be ...
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... popular writers , if not the most popular , of his own day : he observes himself , in the opening chapter of his Worthies , that hitherto no stationer ( or publisher ) had lost by him ; and what happened in regard to one of his works ...
... popular writers , if not the most popular , of his own day : he observes himself , in the opening chapter of his Worthies , that hitherto no stationer ( or publisher ) had lost by him ; and what happened in regard to one of his works ...
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