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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... writing , with some variations.- GAY . His letter on the " Village Lovers " is a gem . - SWIFT . His satire on " Transubstantiation " is omitted for two reasons : the subject is too sacred for such a weapon , and the doctrine too absurd ...
... writing , with some variations.- GAY . His letter on the " Village Lovers " is a gem . - SWIFT . His satire on " Transubstantiation " is omitted for two reasons : the subject is too sacred for such a weapon , and the doctrine too absurd ...
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... writer which occurs in the annals of English Literature , is the ancient and renowned traveller , Sir John ... writing , in three divers tongues , English , French , and Latine.2 Being arrived again in England , and having seene the ...
... writer which occurs in the annals of English Literature , is the ancient and renowned traveller , Sir John ... writing , in three divers tongues , English , French , and Latine.2 Being arrived again in England , and having seene the ...
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... writer has transmitted to posterity , and in the Canterbury Tales we view the pursuits and employments , the customs ... writes : " But much more I mervaile to consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of ...
... writer has transmitted to posterity , and in the Canterbury Tales we view the pursuits and employments , the customs ... writes : " But much more I mervaile to consider this , how that the bishops condemning and abolishing all maner of ...
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... write : So hot he loved , that by nightertale10 He slept no more than doth the nightingale : Courteous he was , lowly and serviceable , And carv'd before his father at the table . 1 That is , the inn called " The Tabard . " The Tabard ...
... write : So hot he loved , that by nightertale10 He slept no more than doth the nightingale : Courteous he was , lowly and serviceable , And carv'd before his father at the table . 1 That is , the inn called " The Tabard . " The Tabard ...
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... write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret - wise couch'd2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire , With many an emerant and fair sapphire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue Of plumys , parted red ...
... write , Toward her golden hair and rich attire , In fret - wise couch'd2 with pearlis white , And greaté balas3 lemyng4 as the fire , With many an emerant and fair sapphire , And on her head a chaplet fresh of hue Of plumys , parted red ...
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