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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... Effects of the Revolution of 1688 Surviving Writers of the preceding Period Bishop Burnet . Thomas Burnet • · · Other Theological Writers . --Tillotson . South Locke Writers on Political Economy Boyle and Bentley Controversy Swift ...
... Effects of the Revolution of 1688 Surviving Writers of the preceding Period Bishop Burnet . Thomas Burnet • · · Other Theological Writers . --Tillotson . South Locke Writers on Political Economy Boyle and Bentley Controversy Swift ...
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... effect had been made to him by the players , the legal proprietors of those " books of comedies , tragedies , interludes , histories , and the like , which they had ( for the special service of his majesty and for their own use ) bought ...
... effect had been made to him by the players , the legal proprietors of those " books of comedies , tragedies , interludes , histories , and the like , which they had ( for the special service of his majesty and for their own use ) bought ...
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... effect- ual means to perform it . For monuments made of wood are subject to be burnt ; of glass , to be broken ; of soft stone , to moulder ; of marble and metal ( if escaping the teeth of time ) , to be demolished by the hand of ...
... effect- ual means to perform it . For monuments made of wood are subject to be burnt ; of glass , to be broken ; of soft stone , to moulder ; of marble and metal ( if escaping the teeth of time ) , to be demolished by the hand of ...
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... effect is as if we were told that even so gently fell the touch of death itself upon the ripe old man — even so easy , natural , and smiling , his labors over , was his leave - taking and ex- change of this earth of many languages , the ...
... effect is as if we were told that even so gently fell the touch of death itself upon the ripe old man — even so easy , natural , and smiling , his labors over , was his leave - taking and ex- change of this earth of many languages , the ...
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... effect , in the involvement and conduct of the story , and in the eloquence of natural feeling , Fletcher's is decidedly superior . It has been re- marked that even in Shakspeare's early narrative poems — his Venus and Adonis , and his ...
... effect , in the involvement and conduct of the story , and in the eloquence of natural feeling , Fletcher's is decidedly superior . It has been re- marked that even in Shakspeare's early narrative poems — his Venus and Adonis , and his ...
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