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 3
... soon after I opened my School for Young Ladies in this city , I felt greatly the want of a book to give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to ...
... soon after I opened my School for Young Ladies in this city , I felt greatly the want of a book to give my first or " finish- ing ' class a knowledge of the best British Poets and Prose writers , arranged in a chronological order , to ...
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... soon distinguished himself , not only in the scholastic philosophy of the times , in which he surpassed all his contemporaries , but also in the study and interpretation of the Scriptures ; so that he acquired the title of Evangelical ...
... soon distinguished himself , not only in the scholastic philosophy of the times , in which he surpassed all his contemporaries , but also in the study and interpretation of the Scriptures ; so that he acquired the title of Evangelical ...
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... soon became the most popular personage in the brilliant court of that monarch . It was in this circle of royalty that he became attached to a lady whom he afterwards married , Philippa Pyknard . She was maid of honor to the queen ...
... soon became the most popular personage in the brilliant court of that monarch . It was in this circle of royalty that he became attached to a lady whom he afterwards married , Philippa Pyknard . She was maid of honor to the queen ...
Pagina 33
... soon in a whilé he Was flowen from the ground so high That all the world , as to mine eye , No more yseeméd than a prick , 3 Or ellés was the air so thick That I ne might it not discern.4 THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF . This has an ...
... soon in a whilé he Was flowen from the ground so high That all the world , as to mine eye , No more yseeméd than a prick , 3 Or ellés was the air so thick That I ne might it not discern.4 THE FLOWER AND THE LEAF . This has an ...
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... soon chosen by the Mercer's Company to be their agent in Holland and Flanders , in which countries he spent about twenty - three years . While there , the new invention of the art of printing2 was everywhere spoken of ; and Caxton , at ...
... soon chosen by the Mercer's Company to be their agent in Holland and Flanders , in which countries he spent about twenty - three years . While there , the new invention of the art of printing2 was everywhere spoken of ; and Caxton , at ...
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