Cyclopędia 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, Volume 1Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - Authors, English |
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... Poetry , 75 The Horse of Adonis , 106 ROGER ASCHAM , 76 Venus's Prophecy after the Death of Adonis , 106 Study should be relieved by Amusement , 76 Selections from Shakspeare's Sonnets , 196 The Blowing of the Wind , 77 Selections from ...
... Poetry , 75 The Horse of Adonis , 106 ROGER ASCHAM , 76 Venus's Prophecy after the Death of Adonis , 106 Study should be relieved by Amusement , 76 Selections from Shakspeare's Sonnets , 196 The Blowing of the Wind , 77 Selections from ...
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... Poetry , 378 Books , 413 Education confined too much to Language , 413 DRAMATISTS . Rules for Improving the Memory , 413 JOHN DRYDEN , 379 . Terrors of a Guilty Conscience , 414 Savage Freedom , 381 Marriage , 414 Love and Beauty , 381 ...
... Poetry , 378 Books , 413 Education confined too much to Language , 413 DRAMATISTS . Rules for Improving the Memory , 413 JOHN DRYDEN , 379 . Terrors of a Guilty Conscience , 414 Savage Freedom , 381 Marriage , 414 Love and Beauty , 381 ...
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... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first ...
... poetry , in great abundance , written both in Latin and in the native tongue . * The earliest name in the list of Anglo - Saxon writers is that of Gildas , generally described as a missionary of British parentage , living in the first ...
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... poetry . It will be observed that it is neither in measured feet , like , Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged ...
... poetry . It will be observed that it is neither in measured feet , like , Latin verse , nor rhymed , but that the sole peculiarity which distin- guishes it from prose is what Mr Wright calls a very regular alliteration , so arranged ...
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... poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey satiric reflections , and give expression ...
... poetry only in the forms of the chronicle and the romance : of its many other forms , so familiar now , in which it is employed to point a moral lesson , to describe natural scenery , to convey satiric reflections , and give expression ...
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