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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... Died . 216 The Necessity of an Unadulterated Scripture 183 Scripture alone the Rule of Faith ..... 184 The Sin of Duelling ...... 184 CATHERINE PHILIPS . Extract from Dr. Beecher's Sermon on Epitaph upon a Child- Upon a Maid ... Against ...
... Died . 216 The Necessity of an Unadulterated Scripture 183 Scripture alone the Rule of Faith ..... 184 The Sin of Duelling ...... 184 CATHERINE PHILIPS . Extract from Dr. Beecher's Sermon on Epitaph upon a Child- Upon a Maid ... Against ...
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... died December 30 , 1384 , of a stroke of the palsy , continuing to the very end of life to labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy ...
... died December 30 , 1384 , of a stroke of the palsy , continuing to the very end of life to labor with increasing zeal in that holy cause to which he had devoted himself in his earlier years . His inveterate enemies , the papal clergy ...
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... died on the twenty - fifth of October , 1400 , and was interred in Westminster Abbey . We know little of Chaucer as a member of society ; but we know that he had mingled with the world's affairs , both at home and abroad . Accom ...
... died on the twenty - fifth of October , 1400 , and was interred in Westminster Abbey . We know little of Chaucer as a member of society ; but we know that he had mingled with the world's affairs , both at home and abroad . Accom ...
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... Died 1408 . JOHN GOWER , one of the most ancient of the English poets , was contempo- rary with Chaucer , his intimate friend . Where , when , or of what family he was born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , ' appears to ...
... Died 1408 . JOHN GOWER , one of the most ancient of the English poets , was contempo- rary with Chaucer , his intimate friend . Where , when , or of what family he was born , is uncertain . His education , says Warton , ' appears to ...
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... died , and the king determined to send his surviving son , James , to be educated at the court of his ally , Charles VI . , of France ; and he em- barked for that country with a numerous train of attendants in 1405. But the ship was ...
... died , and the king determined to send his surviving son , James , to be educated at the court of his ally , Charles VI . , of France ; and he em- barked for that country with a numerous train of attendants in 1405. But the ship was ...
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