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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... 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 indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth ...
... 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 indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth ...
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... greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there ...
... greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical sweetness and delicacy ; but there ...
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... greatest , who lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . , - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley ...
... greatest , who lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . , - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley ...
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... greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The ɔther three all belong exclusively to the times of Charles I. and of the Commonwealth . Thomas Carew , styled on ...
... greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The ɔther three all belong exclusively to the times of Charles I. and of the Commonwealth . Thomas Carew , styled on ...
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... greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some songs and other shorter pieces , several of ...
... greatest poems in that style which had been produced down to the date at which we are now arrived . Denham is the author of a number of other compositions in verse , and especially of some songs and other shorter pieces , several of ...
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