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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... - 1 Read - his " History of English Poetry , " 4 vols . , a work of vast learning , but not unfrequently tedious from its numerous digressions . cepts more impressive , he illustrates his injunctions by a 34 [ HENRY IV . GOWER .
... - 1 Read - his " History of English Poetry , " 4 vols . , a work of vast learning , but not unfrequently tedious from its numerous digressions . cepts more impressive , he illustrates his injunctions by a 34 [ HENRY IV . GOWER .
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... learning and eminence , but they were un- known to each other . At dinner , a dispute arising on some theological points , Erasmus expressed himself with great severity of the clergy , and ridiculed , with considerable acrimony , the ...
... learning and eminence , but they were un- known to each other . At dinner , a dispute arising on some theological points , Erasmus expressed himself with great severity of the clergy , and ridiculed , with considerable acrimony , the ...
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... learning , and rendered poetry and polite attain- ments honorable , by making them subservient to the cause of Virtue and Religion . THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THE UNKINDNESS OF HIS LOVE.1 My lute , awake ! perform the last Labor , that thou ...
... learning , and rendered poetry and polite attain- ments honorable , by making them subservient to the cause of Virtue and Religion . THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THE UNKINDNESS OF HIS LOVE.1 My lute , awake ! perform the last Labor , that thou ...
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... learning . He introduced a new method of pronouncing Greek , which , not withstanding the violent fulminations of the papal clergy , ultimately pre- vailed and still prevails . We are also very much indebted to him for the improvement ...
... learning . He introduced a new method of pronouncing Greek , which , not withstanding the violent fulminations of the papal clergy , ultimately pre- vailed and still prevails . We are also very much indebted to him for the improvement ...
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... learning than the chosen bishops and clerks of this realm have ? Learn , learn to know this one point of religion , that God will be worshipped as he hath prescribed , and not as we have devised . And that his will is wholly in the ...
... learning than the chosen bishops and clerks of this realm have ? Learn , learn to know this one point of religion , that God will be worshipped as he hath prescribed , and not as we have devised . And that his will is wholly in the ...
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