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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... Compendium ” was published , it is now exhausted . For the great favor with
which it has been received , I am truly grateful , and have felt that I could return
my thanks in no way more suitable than by endeavoring to make the second
edition ...
... Compendium ” was published , it is now exhausted . For the great favor with
which it has been received , I am truly grateful , and have felt that I could return
my thanks in no way more suitable than by endeavoring to make the second
edition ...
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He first employed himself in translating from French into English , The Recuyelll
of the Histories of Troye , which was published at Cologne , 1471 , and is the first
book ever printed in the English language . The next year Caxton returned to ...
He first employed himself in translating from French into English , The Recuyelll
of the Histories of Troye , which was published at Cologne , 1471 , and is the first
book ever printed in the English language . The next year Caxton returned to ...
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About twenty - four years after his death , Archbishop Arundel , in a convocation
of the clergy of his province assembled at Oxford , published a constitution , by
which it was decreed , " that no one should thereafter translate any text of Holy ...
About twenty - four years after his death , Archbishop Arundel , in a convocation
of the clergy of his province assembled at Oxford , published a constitution , by
which it was decreed , " that no one should thereafter translate any text of Holy ...
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... vnto Jesus : Who ys then my neighbour ? Jesus answered and sayde : A
certayne man descended from. 1 Dr . Geddes . 2 See a beautiful edition of
Tyndale ' s Testament , by Rev . J . P . Dabney , with an interesting memoir ,
published at ...
... vnto Jesus : Who ys then my neighbour ? Jesus answered and sayde : A
certayne man descended from. 1 Dr . Geddes . 2 See a beautiful edition of
Tyndale ' s Testament , by Rev . J . P . Dabney , with an interesting memoir ,
published at ...
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SIR THOMAS WYATT , 3 whose poems are generally published with those of
Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , as they were contemporaries and warm personal
friends , as well as among the first improvers of the English language , was born
in ...
SIR THOMAS WYATT , 3 whose poems are generally published with those of
Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey , as they were contemporaries and warm personal
friends , as well as among the first improvers of the English language , was born
in ...
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| Title | 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 ... |
| Author | Charles Dexter Cleveland |
| Publisher | E.C. and J. Biddle, 1852 |
| Length | 776 pages |
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