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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... language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions of the writers , to the various criticisms upon them , and to other books upon kindred subjects which ...
... language , with short accounts of the authors and of their works , and such notes as would direct the reader to the best editions of the writers , to the various criticisms upon them , and to other books upon kindred subjects which ...
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... Language 533 ISAAC WATTS ... 479 France in 1718 ... ..... 535 A Summer Evening . 480 Female Education .. ..535 The Rose ... ..... 481 Few Happy Matches . ..... 481 JOHN BYROM .. 538 Looking Upward .. ... 482 A Pastoral 538 Seeking a ...
... Language 533 ISAAC WATTS ... 479 France in 1718 ... ..... 535 A Summer Evening . 480 Female Education .. ..535 The Rose ... ..... 481 Few Happy Matches . ..... 481 JOHN BYROM .. 538 Looking Upward .. ... 482 A Pastoral 538 Seeking a ...
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... language , therefore , is such as our ancestors used more than three centuries ago , and it is here given not only as a curiosity , but from the belief that it will be read with more satisfaction , and convey a much better idea of the ...
... language , therefore , is such as our ancestors used more than three centuries ago , and it is here given not only as a curiosity , but from the belief that it will be read with more satisfaction , and convey a much better idea of the ...
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... language . Why shoulden not Englishmen have the same in their mother language ? I cannot wit . No , but for falseness and negligence of clerks , either fors our people is not worthy to have so great grace and gift of God , in pain of ...
... language . Why shoulden not Englishmen have the same in their mother language ? I cannot wit . No , but for falseness and negligence of clerks , either fors our people is not worthy to have so great grace and gift of God , in pain of ...
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... language to " a premature day in an English spring , after which the gloom of winter returns , and the buds and blossoms which have been called forth by a transient sunshine , are nipped by frosts and scattered by storms . " Chaucer was ...
... language to " a premature day in an English spring , after which the gloom of winter returns , and the buds and blossoms which have been called forth by a transient sunshine , are nipped by frosts and scattered by storms . " Chaucer was ...
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