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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... England before the Seventeenth Century English Science in the Seventeenth Century . -Bacon . Napier . Other English Mathematicians of the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century Harvey . The Circulation of the Blood ; Anatomy , etc ...
... England before the Seventeenth Century English Science in the Seventeenth Century . -Bacon . Napier . Other English Mathematicians of the Earlier Part of the Seventeenth Century Harvey . The Circulation of the Blood ; Anatomy , etc ...
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... England Quarterly Review for January , 1837 , No. I. pp . 171-229 . - One of the most remarkable among the clerical poets 20 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE . Other Religious Poets Quarles Herbert Herrick Crashaw Cartwright Randolph Corbet ...
... England Quarterly Review for January , 1837 , No. I. pp . 171-229 . - One of the most remarkable among the clerical poets 20 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE . Other Religious Poets Quarles Herbert Herrick Crashaw Cartwright Randolph Corbet ...
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... England ; I re- member it when I was a freshman ; it was admirable curious Gothic architecture , and fine figures in the niches ; ' twas one of those built by King . . . . for his Queen ) . The ballad - singer complained he had no ...
... England ; I re- member it when I was a freshman ; it was admirable curious Gothic architecture , and fine figures in the niches ; ' twas one of those built by King . . . . for his Queen ) . The ballad - singer complained he had no ...
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... England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems The last age , and adorns your own ; What are you , now the Prince is gone ? - 1 Many poems , it is to be noted , are found in the common editions of Cleveland's works which are known ...
... England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems The last age , and adorns your own ; What are you , now the Prince is gone ? - 1 Many poems , it is to be noted , are found in the common editions of Cleveland's works which are known ...
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... England hath wolves again . The Scot that kept the Tower might have shown , Within the grate of his own breast alone , The leopard and the panther , and engrossed What all those wild collegiates had cost The honest high - shoes , 2 in ...
... England hath wolves again . The Scot that kept the Tower might have shown , Within the grate of his own breast alone , The leopard and the panther , and engrossed What all those wild collegiates had cost The honest high - shoes , 2 in ...
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