Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Times, Volume 1Robert Chambers J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1856 - Authors, English |
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... rich , though not faultless productions extending between the times of Shakspeare and Dryden . The time seemed to have come for a substitute work , in which at once the revived taste for our early literature should be gratified , and ...
... rich , though not faultless productions extending between the times of Shakspeare and Dryden . The time seemed to have come for a substitute work , in which at once the revived taste for our early literature should be gratified , and ...
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... Rich Fool , 132 Song - The Saint's Encouragement , Religion , Stanzas , 132 Song - The Royalist , 132 LADY ELIZABETH CAREW , SIR JOHN SUCKLING , Song - ( " Tis now , Matin Hymn , Sunday , Mortification , WILLIAM HABINGTON , Epistle to a ...
... Rich Fool , 132 Song - The Saint's Encouragement , Religion , Stanzas , 132 Song - The Royalist , 132 LADY ELIZABETH CAREW , SIR JOHN SUCKLING , Song - ( " Tis now , Matin Hymn , Sunday , Mortification , WILLIAM HABINGTON , Epistle to a ...
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... Rich , 614 Happiness Depends not on Goods , but on Virtue , 561 JOHN HUGHES , 615 From the Prologue to the Satires , addressed to Arbuth- Ambition , 615 not , 563 The Man of Ross , 564 The Dying Christian to his Soul , 565 MISCELLANEOUS ...
... Rich , 614 Happiness Depends not on Goods , but on Virtue , 561 JOHN HUGHES , 615 From the Prologue to the Satires , addressed to Arbuth- Ambition , 615 not , 563 The Man of Ross , 564 The Dying Christian to his Soul , 565 MISCELLANEOUS ...
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... rich pall , On knees she ' gan before him fall , And said , with sighing sore : ' Father , ' she said , ' let me be his wife , That there be no more strife , ' & c . [ Extract from the Squire of Low Degree . ] [ The daughter of the king ...
... rich pall , On knees she ' gan before him fall , And said , with sighing sore : ' Father , ' she said , ' let me be his wife , That there be no more strife , ' & c . [ Extract from the Squire of Low Degree . ] [ The daughter of the king ...
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... rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach . 6 ral objects and scenery , in Chaucer's clear and simple style ...
... rich in holy thought and work , ' and a clerk of Oxford , who was skilled in logic- Sounding in moral virtue was his speech , And gladly would he learn and gladly teach . 6 ral objects and scenery , in Chaucer's clear and simple style ...
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