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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... lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . , - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The ...
... lived and wrote from the middle of the reign of Elizabeth to nearly the middle of that of Charles II . , - from Bishop Andrews , whom we have already mentioned , in prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The ...
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... lived and stood , 1 Died here to rebaptize it in his blood . No more ! no more ! Fame's trump shall echo all The rest in dreadful thunder . Such a fall Great Christendom ne'er patterned ; and ' twas strange Earth's centre reeled not at ...
... lived and stood , 1 Died here to rebaptize it in his blood . No more ! no more ! Fame's trump shall echo all The rest in dreadful thunder . Such a fall Great Christendom ne'er patterned ; and ' twas strange Earth's centre reeled not at ...
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... lived to so late a date , he should not have written more than he appears to have done : the two parts of his Britannia's Pastorals were reprinted together in 1625 ; and a piece called The Inner Temple Masque , and a few short poems ...
... lived to so late a date , he should not have written more than he appears to have done : the two parts of his Britannia's Pastorals were reprinted together in 1625 ; and a piece called The Inner Temple Masque , and a few short poems ...
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... lived : he is witty not by any sort of effort at all , but as it were in spite of himself , or because he cannot help it . But wit , or the faculty of looking at and pre- senting things in their less obvious relations , is accompanied ...
... lived : he is witty not by any sort of effort at all , but as it were in spite of himself , or because he cannot help it . But wit , or the faculty of looking at and pre- senting things in their less obvious relations , is accompanied ...
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... lived within me ever since I could conceive myself anything worth to my country , I return to crave excuse that urgent reason hath plucked from me by an abortive and foredated discovery . And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a ...
... lived within me ever since I could conceive myself anything worth to my country , I return to crave excuse that urgent reason hath plucked from me by an abortive and foredated discovery . And the accomplishment of them lies not but in a ...
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