Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... genius , and in the history of the language , Sackville and his two poems in the Mirror for Magistrates - more espc- cially this Induction - must be considered as forming the connecting link or bridge between Chaucer and Spenser ...
... genius , and in the history of the language , Sackville and his two poems in the Mirror for Magistrates - more espc- cially this Induction - must be considered as forming the connecting link or bridge between Chaucer and Spenser ...
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... genius of Sackville ( to whom we may safely attribute whatever is most meritorious in the composition ) , any more than there was about that of his follower Spenser , illustrious as the latter stands in the front line of the poets of ...
... genius of Sackville ( to whom we may safely attribute whatever is most meritorious in the composition ) , any more than there was about that of his follower Spenser , illustrious as the latter stands in the front line of the poets of ...
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... genius of his day , at least in the comic style . His Damon and Pytheas does not justify their laudation to a modern taste ; it is a mixture of comedy and tragedy , between which it would be hard to decide whether the grave writing or ...
... genius of his day , at least in the comic style . His Damon and Pytheas does not justify their laudation to a modern taste ; it is a mixture of comedy and tragedy , between which it would be hard to decide whether the grave writing or ...
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... genius in this depart- ment . There is extant an old English printed version , in rhyme , of the Andria of Terence , which , although without date , is believed to have been published before 1530 ; and the moral , or interlude , called ...
... genius in this depart- ment . There is extant an old English printed version , in rhyme , of the Andria of Terence , which , although without date , is believed to have been published before 1530 ; and the moral , or interlude , called ...
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... genius . It may be true , nevertheless , as is conceded by Mr. Collier , one of the modern critics with whom Peele has not found so much favour as with Mr. Campbell and with Mr. Dyce , to whom we are in- debted for the first collected ...
... genius . It may be true , nevertheless , as is conceded by Mr. Collier , one of the modern critics with whom Peele has not found so much favour as with Mr. Campbell and with Mr. Dyce , to whom we are in- debted for the first collected ...
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