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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... least to the middle of the reign of Charles II . , our higher literature continued to glow with more or less of the colored light and the heart of fire which it had acquired in the age of Elizabeth and James . Some of the greatest of it ...
... least to the middle of the reign of Charles II . , our higher literature continued to glow with more or less of the colored light and the heart of fire which it had acquired in the age of Elizabeth and James . Some of the greatest of it ...
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... least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the same time that a higher inspiration was drawn from Tasso and Ariosto . It is ...
... least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from the school of Petrarch , or rather of his later followers , about the same time that a higher inspiration was drawn from Tasso and Ariosto . It is ...
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... least suspected it . Cooper's Hill may be con- sidered as belonging in point of composition to the same school with Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum ; and , if it has not all the concentration of that poem , it is equally pointed ...
... least suspected it . Cooper's Hill may be con- sidered as belonging in point of composition to the same school with Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum ; and , if it has not all the concentration of that poem , it is equally pointed ...
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... least bough's rusteling ; By a daisy , whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree , She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this ...
... least bough's rusteling ; By a daisy , whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes to bed ; Or a shady bush or tree , She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can In some other wiser man . By her help I also now Make this ...
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... least might make a show , I reached my books that I had cast about , To see if I could pick his meaning out ; And , prying on them with some diligence , At length I felt my dull intelligence Begin to open , and perceived more In half an ...
... least might make a show , I reached my books that I had cast about , To see if I could pick his meaning out ; And , prying on them with some diligence , At length I felt my dull intelligence Begin to open , and perceived more In half an ...
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