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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... 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 indeed as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till ...
... 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 indeed as the verse of Milton and the prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till ...
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... less , perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , espe- cially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ...
... less , perhaps , of wit ; his dramas produce no deep impression in reading , and of course can leave none in the memory . But his mind was poetical : his better characters , espe- cially females , express pure thoughts in pure language ...
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... less to be tolerated amongst professors of the Christian religion , " and denouncing them as being “ the occasion of many and sundry great vices and disorders , tending to the high provocation of God's wrath and displeasure , which lies ...
... less to be tolerated amongst professors of the Christian religion , " and denouncing them as being “ the occasion of many and sundry great vices and disorders , tending to the high provocation of God's wrath and displeasure , which lies ...
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... less rigidly enforced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are in- formed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhi- bition of stage - plays in London was effectually put down by the act of 1648 ...
... less rigidly enforced , than that it had been thus violated from the first . We are in- formed by the historians of the stage , that , though the public exhi- bition of stage - plays in London was effectually put down by the act of 1648 ...
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... less sweetness , less smooth- ness , and more affectation in his style . " 2 It ought to be mentioned , however , to the honor of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that ...
... less sweetness , less smooth- ness , and more affectation in his style . " 2 It ought to be mentioned , however , to the honor of these two writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that ...
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