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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... less , be practically conversant . The letters of Wyatt , Temple , Gay , Gray , Pope , Montagu , Jones , and Cowper , will , I am sure , be considered as adding much to the value of the " Compendium . " The changes that have been made ...
... less , be practically conversant . The letters of Wyatt , Temple , Gay , Gray , Pope , Montagu , Jones , and Cowper , will , I am sure , be considered as adding much to the value of the " Compendium . " The changes that have been made ...
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... less advanced classes I have deemed it better to commence with the authors of Queen Anne's reign - say with Addison - and then , after having gone through the book , to go back to our earliest literature , beginning with Sir John ...
... less advanced classes I have deemed it better to commence with the authors of Queen Anne's reign - say with Addison - and then , after having gone through the book , to go back to our earliest literature , beginning with Sir John ...
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... less distinguished for a clear and vigorous prose style . Two of the Canterbury Tales , the Tale of Melibeus and the Parson's Tale , are in prose , but his longest unversified production is his Testament of Love , written to defend his ...
... less distinguished for a clear and vigorous prose style . Two of the Canterbury Tales , the Tale of Melibeus and the Parson's Tale , are in prose , but his longest unversified production is his Testament of Love , written to defend his ...
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... less objects of our admiration . " More was a man of true genius , and of a mind enriched with all the learn ing of his time , and no one had a greater influence over his contemporaries . He held continued correspondence with the ...
... less objects of our admiration . " More was a man of true genius , and of a mind enriched with all the learn ing of his time , and no one had a greater influence over his contemporaries . He held continued correspondence with the ...
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... less value than it is ; so that a man of lead , who has no more sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR ...
... less value than it is ; so that a man of lead , who has no more sense than a log of wood , and is as bad as he is foolish , should have many wise and good men serving him , only because he had a great heap of that metal . " THEIR ...
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