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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... Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves ... Writers . - Clarendon 121 • Hobbes 122 • Nevile 126 Other Prose Writers.- Cudworth . - Cudworth . More . More . Burrow ...
... Writers . Charles E Milton's Prose Works Hales . Chillingworth Jeremy Taylor Fuller .. · Feltham's Resolves ... Writers . - Clarendon 121 • Hobbes 122 • Nevile 126 Other Prose Writers.- Cudworth . - Cudworth . More . More . Burrow ...
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... Writers of the preceding Period Bishop Burnet . Thomas Burnet • · · Other Theological Writers . --Tillotson . South Locke Writers on Political Economy Boyle and Bentley Controversy Swift . Pope Addison and Steele Shaftesbury Mandeville ...
... Writers of the preceding Period Bishop Burnet . Thomas Burnet • · · Other Theological Writers . --Tillotson . South Locke Writers on Political Economy Boyle and Bentley Controversy Swift . Pope Addison and Steele Shaftesbury Mandeville ...
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... Writers Female Writers . PAGE · • · • 306 . 308 309 312 Periodical Essayists Political Writing . Wilkes . Junius Johnson Burke Metaphysical and Ethical Writers — Historical Writers . Hume . Robertson . Robertson . Gibbon • 315 . 318 ...
... Writers Female Writers . PAGE · • · • 306 . 308 309 312 Periodical Essayists Political Writing . Wilkes . Junius Johnson Burke Metaphysical and Ethical Writers — Historical Writers . Hume . Robertson . Robertson . Gibbon • 315 . 318 ...
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... writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few comprehensive words , by Mr. Hallam : - " Shir- ley has no originality , no force in conceiving or delineating charac- ter , little of pathos ...
... writer , who survived till 1666 , the merits and defects have been well stated , in a few comprehensive words , by Mr. Hallam : - " Shir- ley has no originality , no force in conceiving or delineating charac- ter , little of pathos ...
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... writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that imitations of some passages in ... writer , George Peele , had contributed something to the awakening or directing of his feeling for the grand and ...
... writers , that the works of both of them appear to have been studied by Milton , and that imitations of some passages in ... writer , George Peele , had contributed something to the awakening or directing of his feeling for the grand and ...
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