Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton - by More , Bacon , Locke - by Hooker , Taylor , Barrow- by Addison , Johnson , Goldsmith - by Hume , Robertson , Gibbon - set in a biographical and critical history of the literature itself . " By this a ...
... Chaucer , Shakspeare , Milton - by More , Bacon , Locke - by Hooker , Taylor , Barrow- by Addison , Johnson , Goldsmith - by Hume , Robertson , Gibbon - set in a biographical and critical history of the literature itself . " By this a ...
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... Chaucer , 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , 232 View of St Lawrence Church , 434 · 3 Portrait of Richard Hooker ... Chaucer's Tomb , · 14 Monument of Bacon , 241 View of Ury House , · 461 Tabard Inn , Southwark , 14 Portrait of Sir ...
... Chaucer , 1 Autograph of Sir Philip Sidney , 232 View of St Lawrence Church , 434 · 3 Portrait of Richard Hooker ... Chaucer's Tomb , · 14 Monument of Bacon , 241 View of Ury House , · 461 Tabard Inn , Southwark , 14 Portrait of Sir ...
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... CHAUCER , 11 EARL OF SURREY , 99995 45 45 46 · What is in Heaven , 11 Prisoner in Windsor , he recounteth his Pleasure there ROBERT LANGLAND , 11 passed , 46 • Extracts from Pierce Plowman , 11 Description and Praise of his Love ...
... CHAUCER , 11 EARL OF SURREY , 99995 45 45 46 · What is in Heaven , 11 Prisoner in Windsor , he recounteth his Pleasure there ROBERT LANGLAND , 11 passed , 46 • Extracts from Pierce Plowman , 11 Description and Praise of his Love ...
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... Chaucer ensis , and our own day . During this time , there were many seats of learning in England , many writers , and many books ; although , in the main , these have now become matter of curiosity to the antiquary only . The litera ...
... Chaucer ensis , and our own day . During this time , there were many seats of learning in England , many writers , and many books ; although , in the main , these have now become matter of curiosity to the antiquary only . The litera ...
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... CHAUCER . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey ...
... CHAUCER . Hitherto , we have seen English poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey ...
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