Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - English literature |
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... Poetry and Poets , • 401 402 Spiritual Pride , Education , EDWARD STILLINGFLEET , Of Obscurity , Of Procrastination , Vision of Oliver Cromwell , JAMES HARRINGTON , 403 True Wisdom , 403 Immoderate Self - Love , 438 403 DR WILLIAM ...
... Poetry and Poets , • 401 402 Spiritual Pride , Education , EDWARD STILLINGFLEET , Of Obscurity , Of Procrastination , Vision of Oliver Cromwell , JAMES HARRINGTON , 403 True Wisdom , 403 Immoderate Self - Love , 438 403 DR WILLIAM ...
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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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... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at- tention after the Conquest , are a class which may be considered as in a great measure foreign to the country and its language . Before the invasion of England by ...
... POETS OF ENGLAND . The first literary productions which call for at- tention after the Conquest , are a class which may be considered as in a great measure foreign to the country and its language . Before the invasion of England by ...
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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 , The Vision of Pierce Ploughman , a satirical poem to ...
... 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 , The Vision of Pierce Ploughman , a satirical poem to ...
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... poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the rise of the Commons in the time of Edward I. , the French long kept possession of the court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar ...
... poetry . Though our language had risen into importance with the rise of the Commons in the time of Edward I. , the French long kept possession of the court and higher circles , and it required a genius like that of Chaucer - familiar ...
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