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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... Delight 282 Practical Religion , ( note ) . 325 Dedication to Charles II . 325 ANDREW MARVELL . 282 Against Titles of Honor . 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ·· 282 Doleful Evils of the Press ... 283 ROBERT BOYLE . 328 Parody on ...
... Delight 282 Practical Religion , ( note ) . 325 Dedication to Charles II . 325 ANDREW MARVELL . 282 Against Titles of Honor . 326 Bacon on Knowledge , ( note ) ·· 282 Doleful Evils of the Press ... 283 ROBERT BOYLE . 328 Parody on ...
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... delight in Chaucer . His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious in my old age . How exquisitely tender he is . " - Coleridge's Table Talk . Read , also , Chaucer Modernized , 1 vol . 12mo , with a well - written introduction on ...
... delight in Chaucer . His manly cheerfulness is especially delicious in my old age . How exquisitely tender he is . " - Coleridge's Table Talk . Read , also , Chaucer Modernized , 1 vol . 12mo , with a well - written introduction on ...
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... delight in study , and in- attention to worldly affairs are eminently conspicuous , Warton thinks that Chaucer glanced at the inattention paid to literature , and the unprofitableness of philosophy . 6 Lever - rather . 3 Ygo - part ...
... delight in study , and in- attention to worldly affairs are eminently conspicuous , Warton thinks that Chaucer glanced at the inattention paid to literature , and the unprofitableness of philosophy . 6 Lever - rather . 3 Ygo - part ...
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... delight the wand'ring eyes ; There trees , and intermingled temples rise . Temple of Fame , lines 11-18 . 6 Read- " Clarke's Tales from Chaucer , " written in imitation of Lamb's " Tales from Shakspeare , " and Clarke's " Riches of ...
... delight the wand'ring eyes ; There trees , and intermingled temples rise . Temple of Fame , lines 11-18 . 6 Read- " Clarke's Tales from Chaucer , " written in imitation of Lamb's " Tales from Shakspeare , " and Clarke's " Riches of ...
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... delight Only through letting of mine eyen fall , That suddenly my heart become her thrall For ever ; of free will ; for of menáce There was no token in her sweete face . ! And in my head I drew right hastily ; And eft - soones I lent it ...
... delight Only through letting of mine eyen fall , That suddenly my heart become her thrall For ever ; of free will ; for of menáce There was no token in her sweete face . ! And in my head I drew right hastily ; And eft - soones I lent it ...
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admirable beauty Ben Jonson better blessing born breath called Castara character Chaucer Christian church death delight divine doth earth Edinburgh Review England English English language English Poetry excellent eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fancy father fear flowers fortune genius Giles Fletcher give grace hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven holy honor hope human king labor lady language learning light live look Lord Lycidas Milton mind moral Muse nature never night noble o'er Paradise Lost passion PHINEAS FLETCHER pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise prince prose Queen religion rich Roger Ascham says shade Shakspeare Sir Patrick Spens song soon soul spirit style sweet taste tears tell thee things Thomas Warton thou thought tion true truth unto verse virtue William Davenant words writings