Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... Scottish literature . Every article has been carefully read in proof by the editor and at least one other fellow- worker . The carefully selected fac - similes and portraits -a conspicuous and not unimportant feature of this edition ...
... Scottish literature . Every article has been carefully read in proof by the editor and at least one other fellow- worker . The carefully selected fac - similes and portraits -a conspicuous and not unimportant feature of this edition ...
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... Scottish birth , save those writing in dialect , are fully naturalised in the British republic of letters . The Irish have no monopoly of Celtic blood , and are not even mainly Celtic in origin : Gaelic reached Erin with the first ...
... Scottish birth , save those writing in dialect , are fully naturalised in the British republic of letters . The Irish have no monopoly of Celtic blood , and are not even mainly Celtic in origin : Gaelic reached Erin with the first ...
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... MINOT STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS WILLIAM LANGLAND ROBERT CROWLEY CHAUCER THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL WILLIAM HUNNIS WYATT SURREY ... ... SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
... MINOT STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS WILLIAM LANGLAND ROBERT CROWLEY CHAUCER THE SECULAR DRAMA JOHN GOWER INTERLUDES CHAUCER'S SUCCESSORS JOHN HEYWOOD HOCCLEVE JOHN BALE NICHOLAS UDALL WILLIAM HUNNIS WYATT SURREY ... ... SCOTTISH LITERATURE.
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... SCOTTISH LITERATURE JOHN STOW ... RICHARD GRAFTON THE ANTHOLOGIES TRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATIONS SIR THOMAS HOBY ... EARLY FRAGMENTS RUTHWELL CROSS STORY OF DRYHTHELM SIR THOMAS NORTH PHILEMON HOLLAND JOHN FLORIO WILLIAM PAINTER ...
... SCOTTISH LITERATURE JOHN STOW ... RICHARD GRAFTON THE ANTHOLOGIES TRANSLATORS AND TRANSLATIONS SIR THOMAS HOBY ... EARLY FRAGMENTS RUTHWELL CROSS STORY OF DRYHTHELM SIR THOMAS NORTH PHILEMON HOLLAND JOHN FLORIO WILLIAM PAINTER ...
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... SCOTTISH LITERATURE - JAMES VI . TO THE CIVIL WAR 504 KING JAMES VI . AND I. 505 ALEXANDER HUME ... 507 JOSHUA SYLVESTER CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE RICHARD CAREW FULKE GREVILLE , LORD BROOKE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE GEORGE CHAPMAN FRANCIS BACON ...
... SCOTTISH LITERATURE - JAMES VI . TO THE CIVIL WAR 504 KING JAMES VI . AND I. 505 ALEXANDER HUME ... 507 JOSHUA SYLVESTER CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE RICHARD CAREW FULKE GREVILLE , LORD BROOKE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE GEORGE CHAPMAN FRANCIS BACON ...
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