History of the English Language and Literature [by Robert Chambers]William and Robert Chambers, 1857 - 294 páginas |
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... pieces , which display much talent , he composed a rude species of play called the Satire of the Three Estates , which was performed at Edinburgh and Cupar- in - Fife , and was supposed to have some effect in causing the overthrow of ...
... pieces , which display much talent , he composed a rude species of play called the Satire of the Three Estates , which was performed at Edinburgh and Cupar- in - Fife , and was supposed to have some effect in causing the overthrow of ...
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... pieces . It may be mentioned that this was the age when collections of fugitive and miscellaneous poetry first became common . Several volumes of this kind were published in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain some ...
... pieces . It may be mentioned that this was the age when collections of fugitive and miscellaneous poetry first became common . Several volumes of this kind were published in the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth , and contain some ...
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... pieces rises to a high degree of excellence . His ad- dress to the Countess of Cumberland is still ranked among the finest effusions of meditative thought in the English language . It opens with the following stanzas , to which we shall ...
... pieces rises to a high degree of excellence . His ad- dress to the Countess of Cumberland is still ranked among the finest effusions of meditative thought in the English language . It opens with the following stanzas , to which we shall ...
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... pieces of ROBERT HERRICK , as selected from the heaps of trash which form the bulk of his works , display a redundancy of fancy , and a refinement of feeling , which make it somewhat surpris- ing that he is so little known as a poet ...
... pieces of ROBERT HERRICK , as selected from the heaps of trash which form the bulk of his works , display a redundancy of fancy , and a refinement of feeling , which make it somewhat surpris- ing that he is so little known as a poet ...
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... pieces of a moral , satirical , or descriptive kind ; in which the versification is very correct , and the language in general very happy , though the style of the ideas seems a century behind that of the English poetry of the same age ...
... pieces of a moral , satirical , or descriptive kind ; in which the versification is very correct , and the language in general very happy , though the style of the ideas seems a century behind that of the English poetry of the same age ...
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