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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... seems to me , is a most curious and remarkable passage , for we must remember that it was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the discovery of America . It proves , beyond a doubt , that Mandeville had a distinct idea of ...
... seems to me , is a most curious and remarkable passage , for we must remember that it was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the discovery of America . It proves , beyond a doubt , that Mandeville had a distinct idea of ...
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... seem to have been very small . In Chaucer's " Troilus and Cresseide " we find the same place indifferently called a ... seems here to be used as a musical term . Come , summer , come ! the sweet season and 1422-1461 . ] 39 JAMES I. OF ...
... seem to have been very small . In Chaucer's " Troilus and Cresseide " we find the same place indifferently called a ... seems here to be used as a musical term . Come , summer , come ! the sweet season and 1422-1461 . ] 39 JAMES I. OF ...
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... 12 If . 13 Make me sigh . 7 This seems to mean complain ; but should it not rather be playen , to play or sport ? 8 Started back . 9 Then a little . 10 More . Why lest1 God make you so , my dearest heart 40 [ HENRY VL JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND .
... 12 If . 13 Make me sigh . 7 This seems to mean complain ; but should it not rather be playen , to play or sport ? 8 Started back . 9 Then a little . 10 More . Why lest1 God make you so , my dearest heart 40 [ HENRY VL JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND .
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... seems to me they must , the merit of the invention is due to John Guttenburg , of Mentz , who used them about 1440 : while Schoeffer , in conjunction with Faust , was the first who founded types of metal . From all the arguments and ...
... seems to me they must , the merit of the invention is due to John Guttenburg , of Mentz , who used them about 1440 : while Schoeffer , in conjunction with Faust , was the first who founded types of metal . From all the arguments and ...
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... seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of losing . 5 Warton says that this ode ...
... seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of losing . 5 Warton says that this ode ...
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