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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... tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury Lane , where he performed until the eve of the Restoration . " † Rutland House ...
... tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years afterwards removed to the Cockpit , Drury Lane , where he performed until the eve of the Restoration . " † Rutland House ...
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... tion , the apology and compensation for every other vice of style , the prime ingredient and almost only thing needful in the com- position ; when the thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and ...
... tion , the apology and compensation for every other vice of style , the prime ingredient and almost only thing needful in the com- position ; when the thought is false and absurd it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and ...
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... tion , the most Latinized of English styles ; but it does not merit the commendation bestowed by Pope on another style which he conceived to be formed after the model of the Roman eloquence , of being " so Latin , yet so English all the ...
... tion , the most Latinized of English styles ; but it does not merit the commendation bestowed by Pope on another style which he conceived to be formed after the model of the Roman eloquence , of being " so Latin , yet so English all the ...
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... tion of Cowley's poetry , in 1656 ; Browne's Hydriotaphia and Garden of Cyrus , in 1658 ; Lovelace's second volume , and Hales's Remains , in 1659 ; together with two or three philosophical publications by Hobbes , and a few short ...
... tion of Cowley's poetry , in 1656 ; Browne's Hydriotaphia and Garden of Cyrus , in 1658 ; Lovelace's second volume , and Hales's Remains , in 1659 ; together with two or three philosophical publications by Hobbes , and a few short ...
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... tion of diverse emotions or natures ; it is Milton alone who sings or declaims all the while , -sometimes of course on one side of the argument , sometimes on the other , and not , it may be , without changing his attitude and the tone ...
... tion of diverse emotions or natures ; it is Milton alone who sings or declaims all the while , -sometimes of course on one side of the argument , sometimes on the other , and not , it may be , without changing his attitude and the tone ...
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