A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... Cleveland Wither Browne ( William ) Prose Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical ...
... Cleveland Wither Browne ( William ) Prose Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical ...
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... Cleveland : The General Eclipse . 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 - Epitaph on Ben Jonson Eulogy on Jonson Elegy on Jonson . 66 Charles I. • · • • The Rebel Scot ; Commencement Definition of a Protector On O. P. Sick · Wither : The Shepherd's ...
... Cleveland : The General Eclipse . 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 - Epitaph on Ben Jonson Eulogy on Jonson Elegy on Jonson . 66 Charles I. • · • • The Rebel Scot ; Commencement Definition of a Protector On O. P. Sick · Wither : The Shepherd's ...
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... Cleveland and Marvel and other subsequent writers carried into new applica- tions , and which only expired among us with Swift . We cannot but give the Ballad , often as it has been printed . The subject is the marriage of Roger Boyle ...
... Cleveland and Marvel and other subsequent writers carried into new applica- tions , and which only expired among us with Swift . We cannot but give the Ballad , often as it has been printed . The subject is the marriage of Roger Boyle ...
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... CLEVELAND . BUT , of all the cavalier poets , the one who did his cause the heartiest and stoutest service , and who , notwithstanding much carelessness or ruggedness of execution , possessed perhaps , even 1 The readers of the Mémoires ...
... CLEVELAND . BUT , of all the cavalier poets , the one who did his cause the heartiest and stoutest service , and who , notwithstanding much carelessness or ruggedness of execution , possessed perhaps , even 1 The readers of the Mémoires ...
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... Cleveland does not occur . Nor is his poetry included either in Anderson's or in Chalmers's collection . Yet for nearly twenty years he was held to be the greatest among living English poets . Cleveland was the eldest son of the Rev ...
... Cleveland does not occur . Nor is his poetry included either in Anderson's or in Chalmers's collection . Yet for nearly twenty years he was held to be the greatest among living English poets . Cleveland was the eldest son of the Rev ...
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