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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... Observations .... 528 The Good Man ... 528 A Summer Scene .. 470 The Good Woman , Youth . 529 A Thunder - Shower . 470 Summer Evening 470 THOMAS SHERLOCK 529 The Springs of Rivers .. 471 Different Ends of Religion and Infi- A Man ...
... Observations .... 528 The Good Man ... 528 A Summer Scene .. 470 The Good Woman , Youth . 529 A Thunder - Shower . 470 Summer Evening 470 THOMAS SHERLOCK 529 The Springs of Rivers .. 471 Different Ends of Religion and Infi- A Man ...
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... observation has been confirmed by subsequent travellers . But when he had to de- scribe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that he " cannot speak of it properly , for I was not there : it is far beyond , but as I have ...
... observation has been confirmed by subsequent travellers . But when he had to de- scribe the locality of Paradise , he fairly acknowledges that he " cannot speak of it properly , for I was not there : it is far beyond , but as I have ...
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... observation and sympathy which could bring together into one company the many - colored conditions and professions of society , delineated with pictorial force , and dramatized by poetic conception , reflecting them- selves in the tale ...
... observation and sympathy which could bring together into one company the many - colored conditions and professions of society , delineated with pictorial force , and dramatized by poetic conception , reflecting them- selves in the tale ...
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... observation ; but he is serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by Chaucer as the " Morall Gower . " He died in 1408 . The chief ...
... observation ; but he is serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by Chaucer as the " Morall Gower . " He died in 1408 . The chief ...
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... observations and shrewd insights into human nature , which show the author to be a man of singular wisdom , and far in advance of the spirit and practices of his own age.4 Besides the Utopia , Sir Thomas wrote a great number of ...
... observations and shrewd insights into human nature , which show the author to be a man of singular wisdom , and far in advance of the spirit and practices of his own age.4 Besides the Utopia , Sir Thomas wrote a great number of ...
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