Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History ...Robert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... Poetry , JOHN DRYDEN , Savage Freedom , Love and Beauty , 377 Of Modesty , opposed to Ambition , 410 377 THOMAS ... Poet , 408 . Ignorance in Power , 444 A Vintner , 409 Religion not Hostile to Pleasure , 445 A Prater , 409 Labour ...
... Poetry , JOHN DRYDEN , Savage Freedom , Love and Beauty , 377 Of Modesty , opposed to Ambition , 410 377 THOMAS ... Poet , 408 . Ignorance in Power , 444 A Vintner , 409 Religion not Hostile to Pleasure , 445 A Prater , 409 Labour ...
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... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions. ANGLO - SAXON WRITERS . HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is essentially a ... poet of nature's making , sprung from the bosom of the common people , and little indebted to education . It appears ...
... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions. ANGLO - SAXON WRITERS . HE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is essentially a ... poet of nature's making , sprung from the bosom of the common people , and little indebted to education . It appears ...
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... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at tention after the Conquest , are a class ... poet . He only translated a serious history , written a few years before in Latin by a monk named GEOFFREY OF MON ...
... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at tention after the Conquest , are a class ... poet . He only translated a serious history , written a few years before in Latin by a monk named GEOFFREY OF MON ...
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... poet was honoured with the steady and effective patronage of John of Gaunt , whose marriage with Blanche , heiress of Lancaster , he commemorates in his poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected ...
... poet was honoured with the steady and effective patronage of John of Gaunt , whose marriage with Blanche , heiress of Lancaster , he commemorates in his poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected ...
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... poet has dwelt more fondly on the charms of a spring or summer morn- ing ; and the month of May seems to have been always a carnival in his heart and fancy . His re- tirement at Woodstock , where he had indulged the poetical reveries of ...
... poet has dwelt more fondly on the charms of a spring or summer morn- ing ; and the month of May seems to have been always a carnival in his heart and fancy . His re- tirement at Woodstock , where he had indulged the poetical reveries of ...
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