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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... Translated , with Sundry Poems and Fancies ; by R. Fletcher . 8vo , Lon . 1656. And other pieces in the same Second Part of the Collection , entitled John Cleveland's Revived Poems , Orations , Epis- tles , and other of his genuine ...
... Translated , with Sundry Poems and Fancies ; by R. Fletcher . 8vo , Lon . 1656. And other pieces in the same Second Part of the Collection , entitled John Cleveland's Revived Poems , Orations , Epis- tles , and other of his genuine ...
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... translated for that time The Liturgy , and buried thee in rhyme ; So that in metre we had heard it said , Poetic dust is to poetic laid ; And though , that dust being Shakespeare's , thou might'st have , Not his room , but the poet for ...
... translated for that time The Liturgy , and buried thee in rhyme ; So that in metre we had heard it said , Poetic dust is to poetic laid ; And though , that dust being Shakespeare's , thou might'st have , Not his room , but the poet for ...
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... translator was translated to a better life anno Domini 16 ... The translation of the translator took place in fact in 1636 , when he had reached the venerable age of eighty - five , so that translating would seem to be not an unhealthy ...
... translator was translated to a better life anno Domini 16 ... The translation of the translator took place in fact in 1636 , when he had reached the venerable age of eighty - five , so that translating would seem to be not an unhealthy ...
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... translation is not needed or known . And Fuller's wit and jesting are always of this character ; they have not in them a particle either of bitterness or of irrever- ence . No man ever ( in writing at least ) made so many jokes , good ...
... translation is not needed or known . And Fuller's wit and jesting are always of this character ; they have not in them a particle either of bitterness or of irrever- ence . No man ever ( in writing at least ) made so many jokes , good ...
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... translated Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity into the same language ; he appears to have had in early life a high reputation both for classic learning and skill in English verse ; but , with the exception of the Microcosmography , his only ...
... translated Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity into the same language ; he appears to have had in early life a high reputation both for classic learning and skill in English verse ; but , with the exception of the Microcosmography , his only ...
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