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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... Fire South : Swift : 66 - - Sermons ; Brevity of Speech Tale of a Tub ; Interpretation of the Will 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 39 66 Brother Martin Brother Jack • Battle of the Books ; Bentley and Wotton The Drapier's Letters ; Wood's ...
... Fire South : Swift : 66 - - Sermons ; Brevity of Speech Tale of a Tub ; Interpretation of the Will 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 39 66 Brother Martin Brother Jack • Battle of the Books ; Bentley and Wotton The Drapier's Letters ; Wood's ...
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... Fire Loves of the Plants To a Mountain Daisy Address to the Deil • · Epistle to a Young Friend 66 Davie ( part ) · Answer to Guid Wife of Wauchope House ( commencement ) The Vision ( part ) My Father was a Farmer Highland Mary Verses ...
... Fire Loves of the Plants To a Mountain Daisy Address to the Deil • · Epistle to a Young Friend 66 Davie ( part ) · Answer to Guid Wife of Wauchope House ( commencement ) The Vision ( part ) My Father was a Farmer Highland Mary Verses ...
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... fire which it had acquired in the age of Elizabeth and James . Some of the greatest of it indeed as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just ...
... fire which it had acquired in the age of Elizabeth and James . Some of the greatest of it indeed as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just ...
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... fire ; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage . A poet should be feared When angry , like a comet's flaming beard . And where's the Stoic can his wrath appease To see his country sick of Pym's disease , - 1 Commonly ...
... fire ; Not all the buckets in a country quire Shall quench my rage . A poet should be feared When angry , like a comet's flaming beard . And where's the Stoic can his wrath appease To see his country sick of Pym's disease , - 1 Commonly ...
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... being praised or reproved , By judgments or by mercies , moved : Then look for so much sword and fire As such a temper doth require . 1 As yet . Ere God his wrath on Balaam wreaks , First by 52 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
... being praised or reproved , By judgments or by mercies , moved : Then look for so much sword and fire As such a temper doth require . 1 As yet . Ere God his wrath on Balaam wreaks , First by 52 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE .
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