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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... present stereotyped edition will be found to be considerably enlarged , and I would hope materially improved . To state all the additions , however , would be impracticable in the limits of a preface . I must therefore confine myself to ...
... present stereotyped edition will be found to be considerably enlarged , and I would hope materially improved . To state all the additions , however , would be impracticable in the limits of a preface . I must therefore confine myself to ...
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... 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- tions of an author's ...
... 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- tions of an author's ...
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... Present Hour re- The Death of his Father .. 405 commended 350 The Strength of True Love .. 405 His Prose Works . 351 The Blind restored to Sight 407 Shakspeare . 352 Ben Jonson 352 DANIEL DE FOE ......... 410 Chaucer and Cowley .. 353 ...
... Present Hour re- The Death of his Father .. 405 commended 350 The Strength of True Love .. 405 His Prose Works . 351 The Blind restored to Sight 407 Shakspeare . 352 Ben Jonson 352 DANIEL DE FOE ......... 410 Chaucer and Cowley .. 353 ...
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... present version has very closely followed it through- out . To use the words of a profound modern scholar , 1 " It is astonishing how little obsolete the language of it is , even at this day ; and , in point of perspi cuity and noble ...
... present version has very closely followed it through- out . To use the words of a profound modern scholar , 1 " It is astonishing how little obsolete the language of it is , even at this day ; and , in point of perspi cuity and noble ...
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... present age perhaps owes many advantages , without remembering or knowing its benefactors . " Read - Johnson's " Life of Ascham , ” xii . 308 , of Murphy's edition . in the Latin and Greek languages . In this office 74 [ ELIZABETH ...
... present age perhaps owes many advantages , without remembering or knowing its benefactors . " Read - Johnson's " Life of Ascham , ” xii . 308 , of Murphy's edition . in the Latin and Greek languages . In this office 74 [ ELIZABETH ...
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