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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... learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportioned wit To nature ; the best judge of what was fit ; The deepest , plainest , highest , clearest pen ; The voice most echoed by consenting men ; The soul which answered best ...
... learned age ; the line Which none can pass ; the most proportioned wit To nature ; the best judge of what was fit ; The deepest , plainest , highest , clearest pen ; The voice most echoed by consenting men ; The soul which answered best ...
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... learned but barbarism in Tully . There was not any street but had a wench That at once coming could have learned them French . Grecians had little there to do , poor souls , Unless to talk with beggarmen in Paul's . All our school Latin ...
... learned but barbarism in Tully . There was not any street but had a wench That at once coming could have learned them French . Grecians had little there to do , poor souls , Unless to talk with beggarmen in Paul's . All our school Latin ...
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... usually say , he would willingly make his own despatches , but that he found it better to be a cobbler than a shoemaker . I have been in com- 1 Lit. of Eur . iii . 376 . pany with very learned men , when I have brought CHARLES I. 59.
... usually say , he would willingly make his own despatches , but that he found it better to be a cobbler than a shoemaker . I have been in com- 1 Lit. of Eur . iii . 376 . pany with very learned men , when I have brought CHARLES I. 59.
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With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. pany with very learned men , when I have brought them their own papers back from him with his alterations , who ever confessed his amendments to have been very material . And I once , by his ...
With Numerous Specimens George Lillie Craik. pany with very learned men , when I have brought them their own papers back from him with his alterations , who ever confessed his amendments to have been very material . And I once , by his ...
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... learned Master Camden , and painful Master Speed , with others , have described the rooms themselves ; so it is our intention , God willing , to describe the furniture of those rooms ; such eminent commodities which every county doth ...
... learned Master Camden , and painful Master Speed , with others , have described the rooms themselves ; so it is our intention , God willing , to describe the furniture of those rooms ; such eminent commodities which every county doth ...
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