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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... style is in many respects , it would be doing an injustice to his poem to compare it with Phineas Fletcher's , either in regard to the degree in which nature and propriety are violated in the principle and manner of the composition , or ...
... style is in many respects , it would be doing an injustice to his poem to compare it with Phineas Fletcher's , either in regard to the degree in which nature and propriety are violated in the principle and manner of the composition , or ...
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... style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some ...
... style pervades both ; and they are the two greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some ...
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... style Ravish and melt anger into a smile ; In winter nights or after meals they be , I must confess , very good company ; But thou exact'st our best hours ' industry ; ' We may read them , we ought to study thee ; Thy scenes are ...
... style Ravish and melt anger into a smile ; In winter nights or after meals they be , I must confess , very good company ; But thou exact'st our best hours ' industry ; ' We may read them , we ought to study thee ; Thy scenes are ...
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... style , we will transcribe a few passages from the Introduction to his Abuses Stript and Whipt , in which , by way of explaining the occasion of the work , he relates the history of his life to that date . After telling us that he had ...
... style , we will transcribe a few passages from the Introduction to his Abuses Stript and Whipt , in which , by way of explaining the occasion of the work , he relates the history of his life to that date . After telling us that he had ...
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... style better than this . The modern air , too , of the whole , with the exception of a few words , is wonderful . But this , as we have said , is the character of all Wither's poetry — of his earliest as well as of his latest . It is ...
... style better than this . The modern air , too , of the whole , with the exception of a few words , is wonderful . But this , as we have said , is the character of all Wither's poetry — of his earliest as well as of his latest . It is ...
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