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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... whole body of Monks , but also the encroachments and tyranny of the church of Rome . He had now fairly entered into that arena which he was to quit only with his life . To enter , however , into the particulars of his eventful life ...
... whole body of Monks , but also the encroachments and tyranny of the church of Rome . He had now fairly entered into that arena which he was to quit only with his life . To enter , however , into the particulars of his eventful life ...
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... whole of the reign of Edward III . , his genius and connections ensured to him prosperity , and also during the period of John of Gaunt's influence in the succeeding reign of Richard II . , 1377-1399 . But during the waning fortunes of ...
... whole of the reign of Edward III . , his genius and connections ensured to him prosperity , and also during the period of John of Gaunt's influence in the succeeding reign of Richard II . , 1377-1399 . But during the waning fortunes of ...
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... whole , however , it is rather tedious , from its innumerable digressions . For instance , Troilus declaims , for about one hundred lines , on the doctrine of predesti- nation . ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE . This is an allegory , depicting the ...
... whole , however , it is rather tedious , from its innumerable digressions . For instance , Troilus declaims , for about one hundred lines , on the doctrine of predesti- nation . ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE . This is an allegory , depicting the ...
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... whole creation open to my eyes . 3 Prick - point . In air self - balanced hung the globe below , Where mountains rise , and circling oceans flow ; Here naked rocks and empty wastes are seen , There tow'ry cities , and the forests green ...
... whole creation open to my eyes . 3 Prick - point . In air self - balanced hung the globe below , Where mountains rise , and circling oceans flow ; Here naked rocks and empty wastes are seen , There tow'ry cities , and the forests green ...
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... whole future political state of both nations was vitally interested , and which ultimately produced the union of the two crowns and 2 Burnt . 8 Strictness . 1 Know . 4 " Specimens of the Early English Poets , " vol . 1. p . 377 : but ...
... whole future political state of both nations was vitally interested , and which ultimately produced the union of the two crowns and 2 Burnt . 8 Strictness . 1 Know . 4 " Specimens of the Early English Poets , " vol . 1. p . 377 : but ...
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