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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... True Reform Letters on a Regicide Peace ; Right Way of making War Cowper - Table Talk ; National Vice 66 66 66 Truth ; Voltaire Conversation ; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus Lines on his Mother's Picture Darwin : - Botanic Garden ...
... True Reform Letters on a Regicide Peace ; Right Way of making War Cowper - Table Talk ; National Vice 66 66 66 Truth ; Voltaire Conversation ; Meeting on the Road to Emmaus Lines on his Mother's Picture Darwin : - Botanic Garden ...
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... true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write about this time , and whose verses may be said to have first exemplified in our lighter poetry what may be done by correct and natural expression ...
... true fathers of our own Waller , Carew , Lovelace , and Suckling , who all began to write about this time , and whose verses may be said to have first exemplified in our lighter poetry what may be done by correct and natural expression ...
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... true , " said I : and thereupon I went to pluck them one by one , To make of parts a union ; But on a sudden all was gone . With that I stopt : said Love , " These be , Fond man , resemblances of thee ; And , as these flowers , thy joys ...
... true , " said I : and thereupon I went to pluck them one by one , To make of parts a union ; But on a sudden all was gone . With that I stopt : said Love , " These be , Fond man , resemblances of thee ; And , as these flowers , thy joys ...
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... true poetical feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I ...
... true poetical feeling . Campbell has borrowed from him the line in his Dream of the Exile , " The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky ; " which in Lovelace is , in one of his addresses to Lucasta , " Like to the sentinel stars , I ...
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... true joy to make amends for all . But say it be not ; whilst I draw this air , I have a heart , I hope , shall ne'er despair ; Because there is a God , with whom I trust My soul shall triumph when my body's dust . Yet , when I found ...
... true joy to make amends for all . But say it be not ; whilst I draw this air , I have a heart , I hope , shall ne'er despair ; Because there is a God , with whom I trust My soul shall triumph when my body's dust . Yet , when I found ...
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