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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... Prose Writers : -Charles I. Milton's Prose Works . Hales ; Chillingworth . Jeremy Taylor Fuller . · Feltham's Resolves : -Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne 23 32 43 47 49 52 52 53 63 67 Sir James Harrington 70 Newspapers 70 Classical ...
... Prose Writers : -Charles I. Milton's Prose Works . Hales ; Chillingworth . Jeremy Taylor Fuller . · Feltham's Resolves : -Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne 23 32 43 47 49 52 52 53 63 67 Sir James Harrington 70 Newspapers 70 Classical ...
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... Prose Writers : -Cudworth ; More ; Burrow ; Bunyan ; & c . Progress of Science in England before the Seventeenth Century 121 English Science in the Seventeenth Century . - Bacon ; Napier 128 Other English Mathematicians of the earlier ...
... Prose Writers : -Cudworth ; More ; Burrow ; Bunyan ; & c . Progress of Science in England before the Seventeenth Century 121 English Science in the Seventeenth Century . - Bacon ; Napier 128 Other English Mathematicians of the earlier ...
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... 473 477 484 493 496 502 506 Other Poetical Writers of the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century 511 · Prose Literature Progress of Science THE VICTORIAN AGE INDEX 518 519 520 . 545 SPECIMENS . VOL . II . PAGE Bishop Corbet : CONTENTS .
... 473 477 484 493 496 502 506 Other Poetical Writers of the earlier part of the Nineteenth Century 511 · Prose Literature Progress of Science THE VICTORIAN AGE INDEX 518 519 520 . 545 SPECIMENS . VOL . II . PAGE Bishop Corbet : CONTENTS .
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... prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor - was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most eminent of ...
... prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor - was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most eminent of ...
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... prose in rhyme , and very indif- ferent rhyme for the most part . His happiest effusions are the two that are best known , his Journey into France and his ballad of The Fairies ' Farewell . His longest and most curious poem is his Iter ...
... prose in rhyme , and very indif- ferent rhyme for the most part . His happiest effusions are the two that are best known , his Journey into France and his ballad of The Fairies ' Farewell . His longest and most curious poem is his Iter ...
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