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Ben Jonson De Winter. 1442722B HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY TAS FROM THE LIBRARY OF George Lyman Kittredge GURNEY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1917-1941.
Ben Jonson De Winter. 1442722B HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY TAS FROM THE LIBRARY OF George Lyman Kittredge GURNEY PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1917-1941.
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... Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1905 B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY JUL 9 1958 Copyright 1905 by YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH.
... Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1905 B HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY JUL 9 1958 Copyright 1905 by YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH.
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... English Journalism and Nathaniel PAGE xi xi xviii XX Butter XXXV E. Identifications xlvi 1. Cymbal and Nathaniel Butter xlvi 2. Madrigal and Jonson li 3. Madrigal and George Wither lv II . TEXT III . NOTES IV . GLOSSARY V. BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
... English Journalism and Nathaniel PAGE xi xi xviii XX Butter XXXV E. Identifications xlvi 1. Cymbal and Nathaniel Butter xlvi 2. Madrigal and Jonson li 3. Madrigal and George Wither lv II . TEXT III . NOTES IV . GLOSSARY V. BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
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... English Drama , 1 says it belongs to 1631 , and that it was reprinted in 1640 , and again in 1641 ; Ward , in his History of English Dramatic Literature , 2 comes to a conclusion similar to that of Miss Bates . In 1870 , however ...
... English Drama , 1 says it belongs to 1631 , and that it was reprinted in 1640 , and again in 1641 ; Ward , in his History of English Dramatic Literature , 2 comes to a conclusion similar to that of Miss Bates . In 1870 , however ...
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Page 132 - It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. It is a heap of stones and men, with a vast confusion of languages; and were the steeple not sanctified, nothing liker Babel.
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Page 210 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
Page 215 - At either corner of this west end is, also of ancient building, a strong tower of stone, made for bell towers : the one of them, to wit, next to the palace, is at...