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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... a metrical version of the Song of Solomon , and George Ferrers , who was a person of some rank , having sat in parliament in the time of Henry VIII . , but 10 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND . The Mirror for Magistrates.
... a metrical version of the Song of Solomon , and George Ferrers , who was a person of some rank , having sat in parliament in the time of Henry VIII . , but 10 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN ENGLAND . The Mirror for Magistrates.
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... Needle is introduced by a song , I cannot eat but little meat , My stomach is not good , & c . which is the best thing in the whole play , and which is well known from having been quoted by Warton , who GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . 25.
... Needle is introduced by a song , I cannot eat but little meat , My stomach is not good , & c . which is the best thing in the whole play , and which is well known from having been quoted by Warton , who GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE . 25.
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... song is most probably not by the author of the play : it appears to be merely a portion of a popular song of the time , which is found elsewhere complete , and has recently been so printed , from a MS . of the sixteenth century , by Mr ...
... song is most probably not by the author of the play : it appears to be merely a portion of a popular song of the time , which is found elsewhere complete , and has recently been so printed , from a MS . of the sixteenth century , by Mr ...
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... song , which for fluency and spirit may very well bear to be compared with the drinking - song in that drama . Neither in the contrivance and conduct of the plot , however , nor in the force with which the characters are exhibited ...
... song , which for fluency and spirit may very well bear to be compared with the drinking - song in that drama . Neither in the contrivance and conduct of the plot , however , nor in the force with which the characters are exhibited ...
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... song , as one of the coadjutors of Sternhold and Hopkins in their metrical version of the Psalms . On the title ... Songs , ii . 31 , edit . 1829 ) , who , he observes , was no doubt as correct as usual . But , whatever may have been ...
... song , as one of the coadjutors of Sternhold and Hopkins in their metrical version of the Psalms . On the title ... Songs , ii . 31 , edit . 1829 ) , who , he observes , was no doubt as correct as usual . But , whatever may have been ...
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