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 ... : Designed as a Text-book for the Highest Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... Christ's Nativity 241 Butler's Prose - A Small Poet ........ 296 Lycidas 243 Scene from Comus . .... 298 Invocation ... Christian in Doubting Castle 320 Guilt of making man Property , ( note ) 280 What is Wit ? .. 281 ROBERT BARCLAY 324 ...
... Christ's Nativity 241 Butler's Prose - A Small Poet ........ 296 Lycidas 243 Scene from Comus . .... 298 Invocation ... Christian in Doubting Castle 320 Guilt of making man Property , ( note ) 280 What is Wit ? .. 281 ROBERT BARCLAY 324 ...
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... Christian . 461 Ode to Fear ... ...... 517 His Prose ... 462 Ode to Evening 519 Letter to Steele on Early Death ... Christ and Mohammed compared ..... 532 Hymn on the Seasons .. 474 From the Castle of Indolence .. 477 LADY MARY WORTLEY ...
... Christian . 461 Ode to Fear ... ...... 517 His Prose ... 462 Ode to Evening 519 Letter to Steele on Early Death ... Christ and Mohammed compared ..... 532 Hymn on the Seasons .. 474 From the Castle of Indolence .. 477 LADY MARY WORTLEY ...
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... Christ 1322 ; and , as an- other Ulysses , returned home , after the space of thirty - four yeeres , and was then knowen to a very fewe . In the time of his Travaile he was in Scythia , the greater and lesse Armenia , Egypt , both ...
... Christ 1322 ; and , as an- other Ulysses , returned home , after the space of thirty - four yeeres , and was then knowen to a very fewe . In the time of his Travaile he was in Scythia , the greater and lesse Armenia , Egypt , both ...
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... Christian men and women , old and young , shoulden study fast in the New Testament , and that no simple man of wit should be aferde unmeasurably to study in the text of holy writ ; that pride and covetisse of clerks , " is cause of ...
... Christian men and women , old and young , shoulden study fast in the New Testament , and that no simple man of wit should be aferde unmeasurably to study in the text of holy writ ; that pride and covetisse of clerks , " is cause of ...
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... Christian men , without keeping of ceremonies and statutes of sinful men and uncunning , that ben made in the time of Satanas and of Anti - Christ ; that men ought to desire only the truth and freedom of the holy Gospel , and to accept ...
... Christian men , without keeping of ceremonies and statutes of sinful men and uncunning , that ben made in the time of Satanas and of Anti - Christ ; that men ought to desire only the truth and freedom of the holy Gospel , and to accept ...
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