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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... printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called The Modern Patriot . Quarles , however , though he appears to have been a person of ...
... printed both by Ellis and Campbell , and which may perhaps have suggested to Cowper , the great religious poet of a later day , his lines called The Modern Patriot . Quarles , however , though he appears to have been a person of ...
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... printed in 1640 , the year after his death . In polish and evenness of movement , com- bined with a diction elevated indeed in its tone , as it must needs be by the very necessities of verse , above that of mere good con- versation ...
... printed in 1640 , the year after his death . In polish and evenness of movement , com- bined with a diction elevated indeed in its tone , as it must needs be by the very necessities of verse , above that of mere good con- versation ...
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... printed . The subject is the marriage of Roger Boyle , Lord Broghill ( afterwards Earl of Orrery ) , with the Lady Margaret Howard , daughter of the Earl of Suffolk ; and the reader will admire the art with which and even poetry of ...
... printed . The subject is the marriage of Roger Boyle , Lord Broghill ( afterwards Earl of Orrery ) , with the Lady Margaret Howard , daughter of the Earl of Suffolk ; and the reader will admire the art with which and even poetry of ...
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... his wrath appease To see his country sick of Pym's disease , - 1 Commonly printed : - " Who lived and Faith's defender stood . " By Scotch invasion to be made a prey To such CLEVELAND . 39 The Rebel Scot; Commencement.
... his wrath appease To see his country sick of Pym's disease , - 1 Commonly printed : - " Who lived and Faith's defender stood . " By Scotch invasion to be made a prey To such CLEVELAND . 39 The Rebel Scot; Commencement.
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... printed under the care of Dr. Gauden ( after the Restoration successively bishop of Exeter and Worcester ) , had been first published by itself immediately after the king's execution . It is now generally admitted that the Eikon was ...
... printed under the care of Dr. Gauden ( after the Restoration successively bishop of Exeter and Worcester ) , had been first published by itself immediately after the king's execution . It is now generally admitted that the Eikon was ...
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