Biographical Sketches of Eminent British Poets Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to Burns, with Criticisms on Their Works, Selected from the Most Distinguished WritersCommissioners of National Education in Ireland, 1854 - 12 pages |
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... death , he retained his mental faculties clear and vigorous to the last . One of his biographers states , that he composed a few verses upon his death - bed GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 3.
... death , he retained his mental faculties clear and vigorous to the last . One of his biographers states , that he composed a few verses upon his death - bed GEOFFREY CHAUCER . 3.
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... death - bed , entitled the " Good Councel of Chaucer , " of which the object was to expose the vanity of human expectations , and the fleeting nature of human enjoyments . Chaucer left two sons , whose history is involved in doubt . In ...
... death - bed , entitled the " Good Councel of Chaucer , " of which the object was to expose the vanity of human expectations , and the fleeting nature of human enjoyments . Chaucer left two sons , whose history is involved in doubt . In ...
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... death of Chaucer , no really great poet appeared until the time of Spenser , with the exception . of Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , who was a writer of a much higher class than his predecessors . Those who are desirous of studying a ...
... death of Chaucer , no really great poet appeared until the time of Spenser , with the exception . of Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , who was a writer of a much higher class than his predecessors . Those who are desirous of studying a ...
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... death ; but Surrey , in the flower of his age , was beheaded a few days before that event took place ; this judicial murder ( for not the shadow of a crime was proved against him , ) being the last of those acts by which the name of ...
... death ; but Surrey , in the flower of his age , was beheaded a few days before that event took place ; this judicial murder ( for not the shadow of a crime was proved against him , ) being the last of those acts by which the name of ...
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... death . About a week after the sentence was pronounced , this gallant and accomplished nobleman expired upon the scaffold . His father was also tried and condemned to perish in the same manner on the 29th of January . But on the morn ...
... death . About a week after the sentence was pronounced , this gallant and accomplished nobleman expired upon the scaffold . His father was also tried and condemned to perish in the same manner on the 29th of January . But on the morn ...
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