Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... passion , or any delineation of the domestic life of his day , he might fairly have claimed - what is some- times claimed for him - to rank as the Father of the English Novel . These things , however , he did not do . His invented ...
... passion , or any delineation of the domestic life of his day , he might fairly have claimed - what is some- times claimed for him - to rank as the Father of the English Novel . These things , however , he did not do . His invented ...
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... passionate in a high measure ; so that he was much against the taking away the lives of heretics ; and there- fore ... passion but upon one single occasion . He brought himself into so com- posed a gravity , that I never saw him laugh ...
... passionate in a high measure ; so that he was much against the taking away the lives of heretics ; and there- fore ... passion but upon one single occasion . He brought himself into so com- posed a gravity , that I never saw him laugh ...
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... passion . He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy , which he rectifies himself with great application ; he is subject to convulsive motions all over his body , and his head seems to be affected with these ; he wants not ...
... passion . He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy , which he rectifies himself with great application ; he is subject to convulsive motions all over his body , and his head seems to be affected with these ; he wants not ...
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... passion more than he had ; yet few men had stronger passions , which were seldom felt but by inferior servants , to whom he usually made such recompenses for any sudden or indecent vents His he might give his anger , that they were glad ...
... passion more than he had ; yet few men had stronger passions , which were seldom felt but by inferior servants , to whom he usually made such recompenses for any sudden or indecent vents His he might give his anger , that they were glad ...
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... passion I would sing , And for this day's oblation bring ; But cannot the dispute decide ' Twixt grief and love , which me divide . When Jesus ' sufferings I review , And know myself to be the Jew , Whose sins created all the woe God ...
... passion I would sing , And for this day's oblation bring ; But cannot the dispute decide ' Twixt grief and love , which me divide . When Jesus ' sufferings I review , And know myself to be the Jew , Whose sins created all the woe God ...
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