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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... 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 towards the close of ...
... 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 towards the close of ...
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... light and amatory poetry is found in Herrick as well as in Donne , a good deal of whose singular manner , and fondness for conceits both of sound and sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics ...
... light and amatory poetry is found in Herrick as well as in Donne , a good deal of whose singular manner , and fondness for conceits both of sound and sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics ...
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... light ; But oh ! she dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day1 Is half so fine a sight . 1 It was formerly believed that the sun danced on Easter - day . See Brand , Popular Antiquities ( edit . of 1841 ) , i . 95 ; where the present ...
... light ; But oh ! she dances such a way No sun upon an Easter day1 Is half so fine a sight . 1 It was formerly believed that the sun danced on Easter - day . See Brand , Popular Antiquities ( edit . of 1841 ) , i . 95 ; where the present ...
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... light , And thence derived such martial heat That still your looks maintain the fight ; What are you , since the King's good night ? Cavalier buds , whom nature teems As a reserve for England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems ...
... light , And thence derived such martial heat That still your looks maintain the fight ; What are you , since the King's good night ? Cavalier buds , whom nature teems As a reserve for England's throne ; Spirits whose double edge redeems ...
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... light in no dark time ; The wonder of a 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 ...
... light in no dark time ; The wonder of a 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 ...
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