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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... sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics - for of such strange intermixture does his poetry consist -are beautifully simple and natural , and full of grace as well as fancy.1 Richard 1 A ...
... sense , Herrick has also caught . Yet some both of his hymns and of his anacreontics - for of such strange intermixture does his poetry consist -are beautifully simple and natural , and full of grace as well as fancy.1 Richard 1 A ...
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... senses , ― - care of Mr. Maitland , in 2 vols . 8vo , in 1823 ; and there are also London reprints of later date . A small selection from Herrick's poetry , in one volume , had been pub- lished in London before the appearance of the ...
... senses , ― - care of Mr. Maitland , in 2 vols . 8vo , in 1823 ; and there are also London reprints of later date . A small selection from Herrick's poetry , in one volume , had been pub- lished in London before the appearance of the ...
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... sense . 2 This may be compared with what Corbet says in describing his landlady at Warwick . See ante , p . 23 . Thy scenes are precepts ; every verse doth give Counsel CLEVELAND . 37 Epitaph on Ben Jonson Eulogy on Jonson Elegy on ...
... sense . 2 This may be compared with what Corbet says in describing his landlady at Warwick . See ante , p . 23 . Thy scenes are precepts ; every verse doth give Counsel CLEVELAND . 37 Epitaph on Ben Jonson Eulogy on Jonson Elegy on ...
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... sense Bribe and seduce tame reason to dispense With those celestial powers , and distrust Heaven can behold such treason and prove just . Charles our dread sovereign's murdered ! - tremble , and View what convulsions shoulder - shake ...
... sense Bribe and seduce tame reason to dispense With those celestial powers , and distrust Heaven can behold such treason and prove just . Charles our dread sovereign's murdered ! - tremble , and View what convulsions shoulder - shake ...
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... sense of being quite used up and consumed , so far as any good was to be got out of it . It was in no respect intended for posterity , any more than the linen and broadcloth then manufactured were intended for posterity . Still even ...
... sense of being quite used up and consumed , so far as any good was to be got out of it . It was in no respect intended for posterity , any more than the linen and broadcloth then manufactured were intended for posterity . Still even ...
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