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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... racter against certain imputations which had been cast upon it . Two of the Canterbury Tales are in prose ; and from the first , entitled the Tale of Meli- beus , is extracted the following passage , not less re- markable for the great ...
... racter against certain imputations which had been cast upon it . Two of the Canterbury Tales are in prose ; and from the first , entitled the Tale of Meli- beus , is extracted the following passage , not less re- markable for the great ...
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... racter . One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse , which he treats with much humour and characteristic description , and concludes with a beautifully expressed moral . [ Dinner given by the Town Mouse ...
... racter . One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse , which he treats with much humour and characteristic description , and concludes with a beautifully expressed moral . [ Dinner given by the Town Mouse ...
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... racter of his poetry is its most essential and per- manent feature . We may tire of his allegory and | ' dark conceit , ' but the general impression remains ; we never think of the Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of ...
... racter of his poetry is its most essential and per- manent feature . We may tire of his allegory and | ' dark conceit , ' but the general impression remains ; we never think of the Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of ...
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... racter ; and so widely was the polemical spirit diffused , that ALEXANDER SCOT , in his New Year Gift to the. Queen. ,. in. 1562. ,. says-. That limmer lads and little lasses , lo , Will argue baith with bishop , priest , and friar . Scot ...
... racter ; and so widely was the polemical spirit diffused , that ALEXANDER SCOT , in his New Year Gift to the. Queen. ,. in. 1562. ,. says-. That limmer lads and little lasses , lo , Will argue baith with bishop , priest , and friar . Scot ...
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... racter of intellect . The most eloquent and imagi- Jeremy Taylor . native of all her divines was , however , JEREMY TAYLOR , who has been styled by some the Shakspeare , and by others the Spenser , of our theological lite- rature . He ...
... racter of intellect . The most eloquent and imagi- Jeremy Taylor . native of all her divines was , however , JEREMY TAYLOR , who has been styled by some the Shakspeare , and by others the Spenser , of our theological lite- rature . He ...
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