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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... true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write about this time , and whose verses may be said to have first exemplified in our lighter poetry what may be done by correct and natural expression ...
... true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write about this time , and whose verses may be said to have first exemplified in our lighter poetry what may be done by correct and natural expression ...
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... true , " said I : and thereupon I went to pluck them one by one , To make of parts a union ; But on a sudden all was gone . With that I stopt : said Love , " These be , Fond man , resemblances of thee ; And , as these flowers , thy joys ...
... true , " said I : and thereupon I went to pluck them one by one , To make of parts a union ; But on a sudden all was gone . With that I stopt : said Love , " These be , Fond man , resemblances of thee ; And , as these flowers , thy joys ...
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... true and deep , and its system of composition is essentially one of point and artifice ; but all this is still to a certain extent in subordination to the principles and laws of good writing ; the conceit is always reduced at least to ...
... true and deep , and its system of composition is essentially one of point and artifice ; but all this is still to a certain extent in subordination to the principles and laws of good writing ; the conceit is always reduced at least to ...
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... true joy to make amends for all . But say it be not ; whilst I draw this air , I have a heart , I hope , shall ne'er despair ; Because there is a God , with whom I trust My soul shall triumph when my body's dust . Yet , when I found ...
... true joy to make amends for all . But say it be not ; whilst I draw this air , I have a heart , I hope , shall ne'er despair ; Because there is a God , with whom I trust My soul shall triumph when my body's dust . Yet , when I found ...
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... true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . * Reason of Church Government , Book II . HALES ; CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names of theological E 2 ...
... true poetical state . The passion which is an enlivening flame in his verse half suffocates him with its smoke in his prose . * Reason of Church Government , Book II . HALES ; CHILLINGWORTH . Two other eminent names of theological E 2 ...
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