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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... probably for any one who would pay him for it . 66 The permanent suppression of theatrical entertainments was the act of the Long Parliament . An ordinance of the Lords and Commons passed on the 2d of September , 1642 , — after setting ...
... probably for any one who would pay him for it . 66 The permanent suppression of theatrical entertainments was the act of the Long Parliament . An ordinance of the Lords and Commons passed on the 2d of September , 1642 , — after setting ...
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... probably about 1620 , from Oxford as far north as Newark and back again . Two lines in this piece might almost pass for having suggested Byron's couplet in Don Juan , - Let not a monument give you or me hopes , CORBET . 21.
... probably about 1620 , from Oxford as far north as Newark and back again . Two lines in this piece might almost pass for having suggested Byron's couplet in Don Juan , - Let not a monument give you or me hopes , CORBET . 21.
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... then only about fifty . His load of riches is probably as much exaggerated by the lively historian of the Comte de Grammont as his load of years . VOL . II . 5 considered simply as a poet , the richest and most Denham Cleveland.
... then only about fifty . His load of riches is probably as much exaggerated by the lively historian of the Comte de Grammont as his load of years . VOL . II . 5 considered simply as a poet , the richest and most Denham Cleveland.
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... probably have been the reason why he so soon ceased to write and publish . From the time when religious and political contention began to wax high , in the latter years of King James , such poetry as Browne's had little chance of accept ...
... probably have been the reason why he so soon ceased to write and publish . From the time when religious and political contention began to wax high , in the latter years of King James , such poetry as Browne's had little chance of accept ...
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... probably was " a desire to lull suspicion , and not to invite prohibi- tion from the ruling powers . " Hardly anything can be found in Fuller that is dull or weari- some ; and we may therefore safely indulge in a few extracts . We will ...
... probably was " a desire to lull suspicion , and not to invite prohibi- tion from the ruling powers . " Hardly anything can be found in Fuller that is dull or weari- some ; and we may therefore safely indulge in a few extracts . We will ...
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