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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... already gone over . The only other name that remains to be mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the com- edy of The Wedding ...
... already gone over . The only other name that remains to be mentioned to complete our sketch of the great age of the Drama , is that of James Shirley , who was born about the year 1594 , and whose first play , the com- edy of The Wedding ...
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... already familiarly known in the country as well as in London . It may be supposed indeed that the town of Bosworth would be one of the first places in which this particular drama was represented out of the metropolis . As a sample of ...
... already familiarly known in the country as well as in London . It may be supposed indeed that the town of Bosworth would be one of the first places in which this particular drama was represented out of the metropolis . As a sample of ...
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... already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being ...
... already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being ...
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... already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be ac- counted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write ...
... already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be ac- counted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write ...
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... already mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after - ages the world was to ...
... already mentioned Bishop Hall , both as a poet and as a writer of prose . A part which Hall took in his old age in the grand controversy of the time brought him into collision with one with whose name in after - ages the world was to ...
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