A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. and J. Biddle, 1852 - 776 pagina's |
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Pagina 6
... appear very probable that they were written by his author , as they were found among his manuscripts in his hand - writing , with some variations.- GAY . His letter on the " Village Lovers " is a gem . - SWIFT . His satire on ...
... appear very probable that they were written by his author , as they were found among his manuscripts in his hand - writing , with some variations.- GAY . His letter on the " Village Lovers " is a gem . - SWIFT . His satire on ...
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... appear the various candidates for her favor ; and here the poet has admirably improved the wide field before him in describing the capricious judgment of the fickle deity in awarding her favors . Pope , in his " Temple of Fame , " has ...
... appear the various candidates for her favor ; and here the poet has admirably improved the wide field before him in describing the capricious judgment of the fickle deity in awarding her favors . Pope , in his " Temple of Fame , " has ...
Pagina 45
... appear . The following is a description of ENVY : - Next in the dance followit INVY , Fild full of feid 14 and fellony , Hid malyce and dispyte ; 16 For pryvie haterit 15 that tratour trymlit , " Him followit mony freik dissymlit , 17 ...
... appear . The following is a description of ENVY : - Next in the dance followit INVY , Fild full of feid 14 and fellony , Hid malyce and dispyte ; 16 For pryvie haterit 15 that tratour trymlit , " Him followit mony freik dissymlit , 17 ...
Pagina 70
... appear that , at the dawn of modern civi- lization , most countries of Europe possessed a rude kind of theatrical enter- tainment , consisting of the principal supernatural events of the Old and New Testaments , and of the history of ...
... appear that , at the dawn of modern civi- lization , most countries of Europe possessed a rude kind of theatrical enter- tainment , consisting of the principal supernatural events of the Old and New Testaments , and of the history of ...
Pagina 78
... appear in those captains of Athens named by me before , and also in Scipio and Cæsar , the two diamonds of Rome . And Pallas was no more feared in wearing Ægida , 1 than she was praised for choosing Olivam ; o whereby shineth the glory ...
... appear in those captains of Athens named by me before , and also in Scipio and Cæsar , the two diamonds of Rome . And Pallas was no more feared in wearing Ægida , 1 than she was praised for choosing Olivam ; o whereby shineth the glory ...
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