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 ... : Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1852 - 776 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... less , be practically conversant . The letters of Wyatt , Temple , Gay , Gray , Pope , Montagu , Jones , and Cowper , will , I am sure , be considered as adding much to the value of the " Compendium . " The changes that have been made ...
... less , be practically conversant . The letters of Wyatt , Temple , Gay , Gray , Pope , Montagu , Jones , and Cowper , will , I am sure , be considered as adding much to the value of the " Compendium . " The changes that have been made ...
Pagina 6
... less importance . - COWPER . " The Wounded Spi- rit Healed , " " The Guilt of making Man Property , " " The Diverting History of John Gilpin , " and five letters , " Cowper's Amusements , " Writing upon Any Thing , " " An Epistle in ...
... less importance . - COWPER . " The Wounded Spi- rit Healed , " " The Guilt of making Man Property , " " The Diverting History of John Gilpin , " and five letters , " Cowper's Amusements , " Writing upon Any Thing , " " An Epistle in ...
Pagina 33
... less distinguished for a clear and vigorous prose style . Two of the Canterbury Tales , the Tale of Melibeus and the Parson's Tale , are in prose , but his longest unversified production is his Testament of Love , written to defend his ...
... less distinguished for a clear and vigorous prose style . Two of the Canterbury Tales , the Tale of Melibeus and the Parson's Tale , are in prose , but his longest unversified production is his Testament of Love , written to defend his ...
Pagina 49
... less value than it is ; so that a man of lead , who has no more sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR ...
... less value than it is ; so that a man of lead , who has no more sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR ...
Pagina 52
... less , at his pleasure be it ! I pray you to make some good onsearch what my poor neigh- bours have lost , and bid them take no thought therefore ; for , if I should not leave myself a spoon , there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear ...
... less , at his pleasure be it ! I pray you to make some good onsearch what my poor neigh- bours have lost , and bid them take no thought therefore ; for , if I should not leave myself a spoon , there shall no poor neighbour of mine bear ...
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