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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... Prose Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical Learning . Retrospect of the Commonwealth ...
... Prose Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves . Microcosmography Sir Thomas Browne Sir James Harrington Newspapers Classical Learning . Retrospect of the Commonwealth ...
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... part of the Nineteenth Century Prose Literature Progress of Science · THE VICTORIAN AGE INDEX • . 455 · 478 · 497 • 501 . 508 518 521 527 531 • 537 • 544 545 · 546 569 SPECIMENS . VOL . II . Bishop Corbet : Iter CONTENTS . vii.
... part of the Nineteenth Century Prose Literature Progress of Science · THE VICTORIAN AGE INDEX • . 455 · 478 · 497 • 501 . 508 518 521 527 531 • 537 • 544 545 · 546 569 SPECIMENS . VOL . II . Bishop Corbet : Iter CONTENTS . vii.
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... prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most eminent of our ...
... prose poetry of Jeremy Taylor was not given to the world till towards the close of the space we have just indicated . But Milton , and Taylor , and Sir Thomas Browne , and Cudworth , and Henry More , and Cowley , the most eminent of our ...
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... prose in rhyme , and very indifferent rhyme for the most part . His happiest effusions are the two that are best known , his Journey into France and his ballad of The Fairies ' Farewell . His longest and most curious poem is his Iter ...
... prose in rhyme , and very indifferent rhyme for the most part . His happiest effusions are the two that are best known , his Journey into France and his ballad of The Fairies ' Farewell . His longest and most curious poem is his Iter ...
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... prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from ...
... prose , and Donne both in prose and verse , to Cowley inclusive . The style in question appears to have been borrowed from Italy : it came in , at least , with the study and imitation of the Italian poetry , being caught apparently from ...
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