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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... Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the same time that a higher inspiration was drawn from ...
... Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the same time that a higher inspiration was drawn from ...
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... Italy , had already , in 1641 , lent the aid of his pen to the war of the Puritans against the established church by the publication of his treatise entitled Of Reformation , in Two Books . The same year Hall published his Humble ...
... Italy , had already , in 1641 , lent the aid of his pen to the war of the Puritans against the established church by the publication of his treatise entitled Of Reformation , in Two Books . The same year Hall published his Humble ...
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... Italy , where some of his juvenile Latin compositions , and some others in the same language , which , as he tells us , he “ had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written ...
... Italy , where some of his juvenile Latin compositions , and some others in the same language , which , as he tells us , he “ had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written ...
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With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. 99 Athens , Rome , or modern Italy , and those Hebrews of old , did for their country , I , in my proportion , with this over and above of being a Christian , might do for mine ; not caring to ...
With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. 99 Athens , Rome , or modern Italy , and those Hebrews of old , did for their country , I , in my proportion , with this over and above of being a Christian , might do for mine ; not caring to ...
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... Italy , his poetry probably acquired what it has of Italian in its character principally through the medium of the elder poets of his own country ; and it is , accordingly , still more English than Italian . Much of its inner spirit ...
... Italy , his poetry probably acquired what it has of Italian in its character principally through the medium of the elder poets of his own country ; and it is , accordingly , still more English than Italian . Much of its inner spirit ...
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