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... vols . post 8vo , 98. cloth . II . BACON : HIS WRITINGS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY . New Edition , revised , with Notes . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . III . SPENSER , AND HIS POETRY . New Edition , revised . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . A ...
... vols . post 8vo , 98. cloth . II . BACON : HIS WRITINGS AND HIS PHILOSOPHY . New Edition , revised , with Notes . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . III . SPENSER , AND HIS POETRY . New Edition , revised . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . A ...
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... . CRAIK , LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE , BELFAST . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. 62074 - B . LONDON : GRIFFIN , BOHN , AND COMPANY , STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . 1861 . FOFBIBLIOS WIEN.
... . CRAIK , LL.D. , PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE , BELFAST . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. 62074 - B . LONDON : GRIFFIN , BOHN , AND COMPANY , STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . 1861 . FOFBIBLIOS WIEN.
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... vol . ii . p . 520. Nothing turns upon it ; but I ought not to have supposed it possible that Homer could have been in anything inconsistent with truth and nature . Queen's College , Belfast , September , 1861 . CONTENTS . VOL . I ...
... vol . ii . p . 520. Nothing turns upon it ; but I ought not to have supposed it possible that Homer could have been in anything inconsistent with truth and nature . Queen's College , Belfast , September , 1861 . CONTENTS . VOL . I ...
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George Lillie Craik. CONTENTS . VOL . I. INTRODUCTORY . Literature and Language The Languages of Modern Europe PAGE 1 3 Early Latin Literature in Britain 6 The Celtic Languages and Literatures 12 Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship ...
George Lillie Craik. CONTENTS . VOL . I. INTRODUCTORY . Literature and Language The Languages of Modern Europe PAGE 1 3 Early Latin Literature in Britain 6 The Celtic Languages and Literatures 12 Decay of the Earliest English Scholarship ...
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... Hooker Francis Bacon · Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy Historical Writers : -Raleigh ; Knolles ; etc. Classical Learning 565 572 576 . 578 579 580 581 585 590 591 593 SPECIMENS . VOL . I. PAGE Song of Canute Archbishop xiv CONTENTS .
... Hooker Francis Bacon · Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy Historical Writers : -Raleigh ; Knolles ; etc. Classical Learning 565 572 576 . 578 579 580 581 585 590 591 593 SPECIMENS . VOL . I. PAGE Song of Canute Archbishop xiv CONTENTS .
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