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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... Style Recommended , 105 Moral Aim of 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 ...
... Style Recommended , 105 Moral Aim of 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 ...
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... Style of the Holy JOHN FLAVEL , Against Repining in the Season of Want , MATTHEW HENRY , GEORGE FOx , Fox's III - treatment at Ulverstone , Interview with Oliver Cromwell , ROBERT BARCLAY , Against Titles of Honour , WILLIAM PENN ...
... Style of the Holy JOHN FLAVEL , Against Repining in the Season of Want , MATTHEW HENRY , GEORGE FOx , Fox's III - treatment at Ulverstone , Interview with Oliver Cromwell , ROBERT BARCLAY , Against Titles of Honour , WILLIAM PENN ...
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... style of this composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the construction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , ap- pears to indicate that little more ...
... style of this composition , which is broken into a series of short unconnected sentences , and in which the construction is as plain and artless as possible , and perfectly free from inversions , ap- pears to indicate that little more ...
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... style . This poem , in many points of view , is one of the most important works that appeared in England previous to the invention of printing . It is the popular re- presentative of the doctrines which were silently bringing about the ...
... style . This poem , in many points of view , is one of the most important works that appeared in England previous to the invention of printing . It is the popular re- presentative of the doctrines which were silently bringing about the ...
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... style . The tales of the miller and reve are coarse , but richly humorous . Dryden and Pope have ho- noured the Father of British verse by paraphrasing some of these popular productions , and stripping them equally of their antiquated style ...
... style . The tales of the miller and reve are coarse , but richly humorous . Dryden and Pope have ho- noured the Father of British verse by paraphrasing some of these popular productions , and stripping them equally of their antiquated style ...
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