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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... 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 ; he is ...
... 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 ; he is ...
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... perhaps , more probable , however , that the statute had only in course of time come to be 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 ...
... perhaps , more probable , however , that the statute had only in course of time come to be 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 ...
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... perhaps , after Donne , the greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical ...
... perhaps , after Donne , the greatest of these religious poets of the early part of the seventeenth century . He belongs in manner to the same school with Donne and Herrick , and in his lighter pieces he has much of their lyrical ...
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... perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise to his greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The ɔther three all ...
... perhaps first in the field ; but he survived almost till the Revolution , and did not rise to his greatest celebrity till after the Restoration , so that he will more fitly fall to be noticed in a subsequent page . The ɔther three all ...
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... Perhaps he made it her's by stealth , And who could help it , Dick ? O ' the sudden up they rise and dance ; Then sit again and sigh and glance ; Then dance again and kiss : Thus several the time did pass , ways Whilst every woman ...
... Perhaps he made it her's by stealth , And who could help it , Dick ? O ' the sudden up they rise and dance ; Then sit again and sigh and glance ; Then dance again and kiss : Thus several the time did pass , ways Whilst every woman ...
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