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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... Fame Eagle's Flight with the Poet Pope's Imitation , ( note ) The Flower and the Leaf- Prose - Upon Riches . JOHN GOWER .. Confessio Amantis Story of Florent ... JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND The King's Quair ... . On his Beloved .... WILLIAM ...
... Fame Eagle's Flight with the Poet Pope's Imitation , ( note ) The Flower and the Leaf- Prose - Upon Riches . JOHN GOWER .. Confessio Amantis Story of Florent ... JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND The King's Quair ... . On his Beloved .... WILLIAM ...
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... Fame to be kept bright by Activity ... 141 The Commonwealth of Bees ... 142 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER ... 143 Address to Melancholy .. 143 The Life of Man . ..... 144 EDMUND SPENSER . 93 Morning .... 144 Remarks on the " Faerie Queene ...
... Fame to be kept bright by Activity ... 141 The Commonwealth of Bees ... 142 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER ... 143 Address to Melancholy .. 143 The Life of Man . ..... 144 EDMUND SPENSER . 93 Morning .... 144 Remarks on the " Faerie Queene ...
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... Fame .. 455 National Luxury the Road to National The Scale of Being .. 456 Ruin 513 Omnipresence of the Deity 457 Address to Bolingbroke . 457 515 The Toilet ... 458 On a Death's - Head 515 Description of Belinda . 458 Winter Song ...
... Fame .. 455 National Luxury the Road to National The Scale of Being .. 456 Ruin 513 Omnipresence of the Deity 457 Address to Bolingbroke . 457 515 The Toilet ... 458 On a Death's - Head 515 Description of Belinda . 458 Winter Song ...
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... Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled . That noble Chaucer , in those former times , SPENSER . Who first enriched our English with his rhymes , And was the first of ours that ever broke Into the Muse's treasures , and first spoke ...
... Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled . That noble Chaucer , in those former times , SPENSER . Who first enriched our English with his rhymes , And was the first of ours that ever broke Into the Muse's treasures , and first spoke ...
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... fame . On his return home , the friendship and patronage of the reigning monarch were continued to him . He was made controller of the customs of wine and wool , the revenue from which office , together with a pension that was granted ...
... fame . On his return home , the friendship and patronage of the reigning monarch were continued to him . He was made controller of the customs of wine and wool , the revenue from which office , together with a pension that was granted ...
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