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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... PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE , BELFAST . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I 62074 - B . LONDON : GRIFFIN , BOHN , AND COMPANY , STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . 1861 . HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND ...
... PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE , BELFAST . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I 62074 - B . LONDON : GRIFFIN , BOHN , AND COMPANY , STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . 1861 . HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND ...
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George Lillie Craik. HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . CONTENTS . VOL . II . PAGE MIDDLE AND LATTER.
George Lillie Craik. HEK WIEN LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . CONTENTS . VOL . II . PAGE MIDDLE AND LATTER.
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... printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may 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 ...
... printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may 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 ...
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... printed in the course of the next thirty or forty years ; the edition before us , dated 1668 , is called the fifth . One of the most remarkable among the clerical poets of this earlier half of the seventeenth century was Dr. Richard ...
... printed in the course of the next thirty or forty years ; the edition before us , dated 1668 , is called the fifth . One of the most remarkable among the clerical poets of this earlier half of the seventeenth century was Dr. Richard ...
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... printed in 1640 , the year after his death . In polish and evenness of movement , combined with a diction elevated indeed in its tone , as it must needs be by the very necessities of verse , above that of mere good conversation , but ...
... printed in 1640 , the year after his death . In polish and evenness of movement , combined with a diction elevated indeed in its tone , as it must needs be by the very necessities of verse , above that of mere good conversation , but ...
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