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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... Letter to Mr. Elliot ; True Reform Letters on a Regicide Peace ; Right Way of making War Cowper - Table Talk ; National Vice 66 66 66 Truth ; Voltaire Conversation ; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus Lines on his Mother's Picture Darwin ...
... Letter to Mr. Elliot ; True Reform Letters on a Regicide Peace ; Right Way of making War Cowper - Table Talk ; National Vice 66 66 66 Truth ; Voltaire Conversation ; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus Lines on his Mother's Picture Darwin ...
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... Letter of Constance Crabbe : Tales of the Hall ; Story of the Elder Brother ( part ) Moore : Lallah Rookh ; Calm after Storm - Byron - Don Juan ; Letter of Julia - Shelley : Ode to a Skylark . — Keats : Ode to a Nightingale Hunt : - The ...
... Letter of Constance Crabbe : Tales of the Hall ; Story of the Elder Brother ( part ) Moore : Lallah Rookh ; Calm after Storm - Byron - Don Juan ; Letter of Julia - Shelley : Ode to a Skylark . — Keats : Ode to a Nightingale Hunt : - The ...
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... letter to Cromwell.1 The following stanzas are entitled The General Eclipse : Ladies , that gild the glittering noon , And by reflection mend his ray ; Whose beauty makes the sprightly sun To dance , as upon Easter - day ; What are you ...
... letter to Cromwell.1 The following stanzas are entitled The General Eclipse : Ladies , that gild the glittering noon , And by reflection mend his ray ; Whose beauty makes the sprightly sun To dance , as upon Easter - day ; What are you ...
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... letters , despatches , and other political papers , the contents of this collection are all theological , consisting of prayers , arguments , and disquisitions on the controversy about church government , and the famous Eikon Basiliké ...
... letters , despatches , and other political papers , the contents of this collection are all theological , consisting of prayers , arguments , and disquisitions on the controversy about church government , and the famous Eikon Basiliké ...
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... letters of the names of five Puritan ministers by whom the tract was written Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew Newcomen , and William ( or , as he was on this occasion reduced to designate himself , Uuilliam ) ...
... letters of the names of five Puritan ministers by whom the tract was written Stephen Marshall , Edmund Calamy , Thomas Young , Matthew Newcomen , and William ( or , as he was on this occasion reduced to designate himself , Uuilliam ) ...
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