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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... called , that is , what- ever of our literature by right of its poetic shape or spirit is to be held as peculiarly belonging to the language and the country , had its noonday in the period comprehending the last quarter of the sixteenth ...
... called , that is , what- ever of our literature by right of its poetic shape or spirit is to be held as peculiarly belonging to the language and the country , had its noonday in the period comprehending the last quarter of the sixteenth ...
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... called the King's Company ( the same that Shakspeare had belonged to ) , which acted at the Globe , on the Bankside in Southwark , in the summer , and at the Blackfriars Theatre in winter . 2. The Queen's Players , who occupied the ...
... called the King's Company ( the same that Shakspeare had belonged to ) , which acted at the Globe , on the Bankside in Southwark , in the summer , and at the Blackfriars Theatre in winter . 2. The Queen's Players , who occupied the ...
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... called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . ” The missing comedy of The Wild Goose Chase had been lost , he tells us in another passage , by being borrowed from the ...
... called mean where every one is best ) cost them more than four times the price you pay for the whole volume . ” The missing comedy of The Wild Goose Chase had been lost , he tells us in another passage , by being borrowed from the ...
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... called his representations operas ; but at length grow- ing bolder , it is affirmed , he wrote and caused to be acted several regular plays . 1 See the facts connected with the shutting of the theatres for the first time accu- rately ...
... called his representations operas ; but at length grow- ing bolder , it is affirmed , he wrote and caused to be acted several regular plays . 1 See the facts connected with the shutting of the theatres for the first time accu- rately ...
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... Francis Quarles , who died in 1644 , was one of the most popular 1 Called by mistake , his elder brother . 2 Lit of Eur . iii . 252 . as well as voluminous writers of the day , and 18 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
... Francis Quarles , who died in 1644 , was one of the most popular 1 Called by mistake , his elder brother . 2 Lit of Eur . iii . 252 . as well as voluminous writers of the day , and 18 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
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