History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... followed by very gloomy weather . This long period , however , produced several poets not destitute of merit . The first of these was JAMES I. , King of Scotland , whose mind and its productions , notwithstanding his be- ing a native of ...
... followed by very gloomy weather . This long period , however , produced several poets not destitute of merit . The first of these was JAMES I. , King of Scotland , whose mind and its productions , notwithstanding his be- ing a native of ...
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... followed ENVY , Fill'd full of feid and fellony , Hid malice and despite . For privy hatred that traitor trembled , Him followed mony freik * dissembled With fenyit wordis white ; And flatterers unto men's faces , And back - biters in ...
... followed ENVY , Fill'd full of feid and fellony , Hid malice and despite . For privy hatred that traitor trembled , Him followed mony freik * dissembled With fenyit wordis white ; And flatterers unto men's faces , And back - biters in ...
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... followed . ' Among the great men of this age , it would be impro- per to overlook SIR JOHN CHEKE , professor of Greek at Cambridge , who first induced the learned of England to study that language , and the valuable literature em ...
... followed . ' Among the great men of this age , it would be impro- per to overlook SIR JOHN CHEKE , professor of Greek at Cambridge , who first induced the learned of England to study that language , and the valuable literature em ...
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... followed the manner of Spenser in his unceasing personifications of natural objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he ...
... followed the manner of Spenser in his unceasing personifications of natural objects , such as hills , rivers , and woods . The prevailing taste of Drayton is a mixture of the historical and the poetical ; and besides the Polyolbion , he ...
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... followed by other writers , and thus a return was in some measure effected to the natural taste of the preceding era . But no tragedy of this period , not even those of Dryden , has taken such hold of the stage as the Venice Preserved ...
... followed by other writers , and thus a return was in some measure effected to the natural taste of the preceding era . But no tragedy of this period , not even those of Dryden , has taken such hold of the stage as the Venice Preserved ...
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