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 strani |
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... known to us , must be new to every successive generation ; and , therefore , that all books of selections designed for them , should contain a portion of such pieces as all of any pretensions to taste have united to admire . Milton's ...
... known to us , must be new to every successive generation ; and , therefore , that all books of selections designed for them , should contain a portion of such pieces as all of any pretensions to taste have united to admire . Milton's ...
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... known . - SIR WALTER RALEIGH . More change has been made in this author than in any other , as I was able to procure a copy of Sir E. Brydges's edition of his works . " The Nymph's Reply " is now printed correctly , and every one must ...
... known . - SIR WALTER RALEIGH . More change has been made in this author than in any other , as I was able to procure a copy of Sir E. Brydges's edition of his works . " The Nymph's Reply " is now printed correctly , and every one must ...
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... known , but at a suitable age he entered the University of Oxford , where he 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 ...
... known , but at a suitable age he entered the University of Oxford , where he 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 ...
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... known of his personal history . The only work of consequence which he has left , is entitled " Bruce . " It is a metrical history of Robert the First ( 1306-1329 ) -of his exertions and achievements for the recovery of the independence ...
... known of his personal history . The only work of consequence which he has left , is entitled " Bruce . " It is a metrical history of Robert the First ( 1306-1329 ) -of his exertions and achievements for the recovery of the independence ...
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... known as " The Father of English poetry " - Geoffrey Chaucer . Warton , with great beauty and justice , has compared the appearance of Chaucer in our language to " a premature day in an English spring , after which the gloom of winter ...
... known as " The Father of English poetry " - Geoffrey Chaucer . Warton , with great beauty and justice , has compared the appearance of Chaucer in our language to " a premature day in an English spring , after which the gloom of winter ...
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