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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... expressing lascivious mirth and levity , " — ordained , that , while these sad causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be for- borne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure ...
... expressing lascivious mirth and levity , " — ordained , that , while these sad causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be for- borne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure ...
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... expression of his favorite fancies and contemplations . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and lumi- nous . Robert Herrick , who was also a clergyman , is the ...
... expression of his favorite fancies and contemplations . His quaintness lies in his thoughts rather than in their expression , which is in general sufficiently simple and lumi- nous . Robert Herrick , who was also a clergyman , is the ...
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... expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem — the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise ...
... expression , smoothness of flow , and all that lies in the ars celare artem — the art of making art itself seem nature . Of the four , Waller was perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise ...
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... expression is preserved throughout along with the forms of speech , as well as of thought , natural to the rustic narrator : - I tell thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen : Oh things without compare ...
... expression is preserved throughout along with the forms of speech , as well as of thought , natural to the rustic narrator : - I tell thee , Dick , where I have been , Where I the rarest things have seen : Oh things without compare ...
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... expression ; and few of his pieces are free from a good deal of obscurity , harshness , or other disfigurement , occasioned by this habit or tendency , working in association with an alert , ingenious , and fertile fancy , a neglect of ...
... expression ; and few of his pieces are free from a good deal of obscurity , harshness , or other disfigurement , occasioned by this habit or tendency , working in association with an alert , ingenious , and fertile fancy , a neglect of ...
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