A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... England have been during the present century , into which it was not my purpose to enter . Fifth . This edition will be found to be enriched also with many more specimens of epistolary correspondence - not only the most interesting por ...
... England have been during the present century , into which it was not my purpose to enter . Fifth . This edition will be found to be enriched also with many more specimens of epistolary correspondence - not only the most interesting por ...
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... England and London . 266 Reform .. 309 The Power of Truth . 267 Despise not the Least . 310 The Poet's Morning . 268 The Beasts within us . 310 Symmons's Estimate of his Character 268 Sir Egerton Brydges's Estimate All Christians ...
... England and London . 266 Reform .. 309 The Power of Truth . 267 Despise not the Least . 310 The Poet's Morning . 268 The Beasts within us . 310 Symmons's Estimate of his Character 268 Sir Egerton Brydges's Estimate All Christians ...
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... England in 1322 , and continued abroad for thirty - four years ; during which time his person and appearance had so changed , that , on his return , his friends , who had supposed him dead , did not know him . But so fixed was his habit ...
... England in 1322 , and continued abroad for thirty - four years ; during which time his person and appearance had so changed , that , on his return , his friends , who had supposed him dead , did not know him . But so fixed was his habit ...
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... England has since distinguished herself above all other nations for the number and the character of her voyagers and travellers , who , for the sake of enlarging the bounds of geographical knowledge , have pushed their way into every ...
... England has since distinguished herself above all other nations for the number and the character of her voyagers and travellers , who , for the sake of enlarging the bounds of geographical knowledge , have pushed their way into every ...
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... England and Ireland , and some in the Imperial Library at Vienna . His great work was the translation of the Scriptures , and to him belongs the high honor of having 1 " In all stages of society , those unquestionably deserve the ...
... England and Ireland , and some in the Imperial Library at Vienna . His great work was the translation of the Scriptures , and to him belongs the high honor of having 1 " In all stages of society , those unquestionably deserve the ...
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