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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... Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical Learning . Retrospect of the Commonwealth . Literature Poetry of Milton ...
... Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical Learning . Retrospect of the Commonwealth . Literature Poetry of Milton ...
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... Philemon Holland • · Holy State and Profane State ; The Good Soldier 66 66 66 66 The Good Sea Captain Bishop Earle [ ? ] : - Microcosmography ; An Alderman 66 66 Milton : — College Exercise ; His Native Language Waller.
... Philemon Holland • · Holy State and Profane State ; The Good Soldier 66 66 66 66 The Good Sea Captain Bishop Earle [ ? ] : - Microcosmography ; An Alderman 66 66 Milton : — College Exercise ; His Native Language Waller.
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With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. Milton : — College Exercise ; His Native Language Waller - His Last Verses Marvel : To his Coy Mistress - 66 66 66 The Picture of T. C. Death of the Protector Royal Resolutions • · 66 • PAGE ...
With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. Milton : — College Exercise ; His Native Language Waller - His Last Verses Marvel : To his Coy Mistress - 66 66 66 The Picture of T. C. Death of the Protector Royal Resolutions • · 66 • PAGE ...
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... Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most ...
... Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most ...
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... Milton , and that imitations of some passages in each are to be traced in his poetry . Milton was undoubtedly a diligent reader of the English poetry of the age preceding his own ; and his predecessors of all degrees , Ben Jonson and ...
... Milton , and that imitations of some passages in each are to be traced in his poetry . Milton was undoubtedly a diligent reader of the English poetry of the age preceding his own ; and his predecessors of all degrees , Ben Jonson and ...
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