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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... thought , have not much of the poetical or untranslatable ) were all of them , it is worthy of observation , born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture for such minds ...
... thought , have not much of the poetical or untranslatable ) were all of them , it is worthy of observation , born before the close of the reign of James I. Nor would the stormy time that followed be without its nurture for such minds ...
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... thought might help to spread the disease , and on such occasions the players were wont to go down and act in the provinces ; but their absence from town when protracted beyond a few weeks was very impatiently borne . In May , 1636 ...
... thought might help to spread the disease , and on such occasions the players were wont to go down and act in the provinces ; but their absence from town when protracted beyond a few weeks was very impatiently borne . In May , 1636 ...
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... thought , for nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither ...
... thought , for nearly a century after the first introduction among us of that fashion of writing . Even some of the highest minds did not entirely escape the contagion . If nothing of it is to be found in Spenser or Milton , neither ...
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... thought , had already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be ac- counted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all ...
... thought , had already been carried to considerable height by Malherbe , Racan , Malleville , and others ; and these writers are doubtless to be ac- counted the true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all ...
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... thoughts : on the contrary , it is decidedly addicted to what is brilliant in preference to what is true and deep ... thought is false and absurd , it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration ...
... thoughts : on the contrary , it is decidedly addicted to what is brilliant in preference to what is true and deep ... thought is false and absurd , it is not tortured into still greater absurdity and grotesqueness by the perpetration ...
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