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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... poets given in the first edition - from Chaucer , Wyatt , Southwell , Spenser , Sandys , Gay , Gray , Cowper , and Sir William Jones . These , with the prose selections from other poets previously given , will fully substantiate the re ...
... poets given in the first edition - from Chaucer , Wyatt , Southwell , Spenser , Sandys , Gay , Gray , Cowper , and Sir William Jones . These , with the prose selections from other poets previously given , will fully substantiate the re ...
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... poets of Scotland was John Barbour , Arch- deacon of Aberdeen . But very little is known of his personal history . The ... poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in ...
... poets of Scotland was John Barbour , Arch- deacon of Aberdeen . But very little is known of his personal history . The ... poem . After the painful description of the slavery to which Scotland was reduced by Edward I. , he breaks out in ...
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... poems containing passages equal to any thing found in his chief work . The following are the principal . TROILUS AND ... poem furnishes a great variety of rich and beautiful descriptions - paintings most true to nature . THE HOUSE OF ...
... poems containing passages equal to any thing found in his chief work . The following are the principal . TROILUS AND ... poem furnishes a great variety of rich and beautiful descriptions - paintings most true to nature . THE HOUSE OF ...
Pagina 39
... poem of James I. , as mentioned above , consists of one hundred and ninety - seven stanzas . It contains various particulars of his own life ; is full of simplicity and feeling , and , as has been correctly said , is superior to any ...
... poem of James I. , as mentioned above , consists of one hundred and ninety - seven stanzas . It contains various particulars of his own life ; is full of simplicity and feeling , and , as has been correctly said , is superior to any ...
Pagina 45
... poem opens with the following stanzas , remarkable for their de- scriptive and picturesque beauties : Quhen1 Merche ... poems take the following , containing much wholesome advice : 1 When . Qu has the force of w . 7 With good will . 8 ...
... poem opens with the following stanzas , remarkable for their de- scriptive and picturesque beauties : Quhen1 Merche ... poems take the following , containing much wholesome advice : 1 When . Qu has the force of w . 7 With good will . 8 ...
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