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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... thought , have not much 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 ...
... thought , have not much 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 ...
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... thought might help to spread the disease , and on such occasions the players were wont to go down and act in the provinces ; but their absence from town when protracted beyond a few weeks was very im- patiently borne . In May , 1636 ...
... thought might help to spread the disease , and on such occasions the players were wont to go down and act in the provinces ; but their absence from town when protracted beyond a few weeks was very im- patiently borne . In May , 1636 ...
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... thought , for nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither ...
... thought , for nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither ...
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... thought , had already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be accounted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all ...
... thought , had already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be accounted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all ...
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... thoughts : on the contrary , it is decidedly addicted to what is brilliant in preference to what is true and deep ... thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration of ...
... thoughts : on the contrary , it is decidedly addicted to what is brilliant in preference to what is true and deep ... thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration of ...
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