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 , 75 The Horse of Adonis , 106 ROGER ASCHAM , 76 Venus's Prophecy after the Death of Adonis , 10 ˆ Study should be relieved by Amusement , 76 Selections from Shakspeare's Sonnets , 106 The Blowing of the Wind , 77 Selections from ...
... Poetry , 75 The Horse of Adonis , 106 ROGER ASCHAM , 76 Venus's Prophecy after the Death of Adonis , 10 ˆ Study should be relieved by Amusement , 76 Selections from Shakspeare's Sonnets , 106 The Blowing of the Wind , 77 Selections from ...
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... Poetry , 234 Accusation and Death of Silius in the Senate - House , 234 Love , 195 Choice of a Wife , 234 A Simpleton and a Braggadocio , 196 Domestic Economy , 234 Bobadil's Plan for Saving the Expense of an Army , Advice to a Reckless ...
... Poetry , 234 Accusation and Death of Silius in the Senate - House , 234 Love , 195 Choice of a Wife , 234 A Simpleton and a Braggadocio , 196 Domestic Economy , 234 Bobadil's Plan for Saving the Expense of an Army , Advice to a Reckless ...
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... Poetry , JOHN DRYDEN , Savage Freedom , Love and Beauty , 377 Of Modesty , opposed to Ambition , 410 377 THOMAS FULLER , 411 377 The Good Schoolmaster , 412 378 . Recreation , 413 378 Books , 413 Education confined too much to Language ...
... Poetry , JOHN DRYDEN , Savage Freedom , Love and Beauty , 377 Of Modesty , opposed to Ambition , 410 377 THOMAS FULLER , 411 377 The Good Schoolmaster , 412 378 . Recreation , 413 378 Books , 413 Education confined too much to Language ...
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... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first ...
... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first ...
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... poetry . It will be observed that it is neither in measured feet , like Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged ...
... poetry . It will be observed that it is neither in measured feet , like Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged ...
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