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 18
... considering the time and circumstances in which he wrote , to none must Sir John Mandeville give place . We must bear continually in mind that he wrote nearly five hundred years ago - one hundred years before printing was introduced ...
... considering the time and circumstances in which he wrote , to none must Sir John Mandeville give place . We must bear continually in mind that he wrote nearly five hundred years ago - one hundred years before printing was introduced ...
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... consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of English bookes and treatises , which might bring the people to any light of knowledge , did yet au- thorize the Workes of Chaucer to remaine . So it pleased God ...
... consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of English bookes and treatises , which might bring the people to any light of knowledge , did yet au- thorize the Workes of Chaucer to remaine . So it pleased God ...
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... considering the short time that he had served . 9 Floyting - fluting , playing on the flute , whistling . The squire would not , in all probability , have a flute always with him . I should therefore prefer the reading that he ...
... considering the short time that he had served . 9 Floyting - fluting , playing on the flute , whistling . The squire would not , in all probability , have a flute always with him . I should therefore prefer the reading that he ...
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... consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to dis- guise matters as well as to wrest laws ; and , therefore , they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause , and trust it to the judge . " OF THEIR ...
... consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to dis- guise matters as well as to wrest laws ; and , therefore , they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause , and trust it to the judge . " OF THEIR ...
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... considering err . 1 " The great praise of Sidney in this treatise is , that he has shown the capacity of the English lan- guage for spirit , variety , gracious idiom , and masculine firmness . " Read - Hallam's " Introduction to the ...
... considering err . 1 " The great praise of Sidney in this treatise is , that he has shown the capacity of the English lan- guage for spirit , variety , gracious idiom , and masculine firmness . " Read - Hallam's " Introduction to the ...
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