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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... prose and verse , a chrestomathy of purple patches , a collection of elegant extracts . The acknowledged gem should be there , if the man is mainly known by some one noble passage , one sonnet , one song , one aphorism or sententious ...
... prose and verse , a chrestomathy of purple patches , a collection of elegant extracts . The acknowledged gem should be there , if the man is mainly known by some one noble passage , one sonnet , one song , one aphorism or sententious ...
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... PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ... JOHN WYCLIF ... BÆDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST JOHN PURVEY BRUNANBURH ... ... JOHN ...
... PROSE WRITERS THOMAS USK SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE CYNEWULF JOHN OF TREVISA LATIN WRITERS BEFORE LFRED ... JOHN WYCLIF ... BÆDA THE BIBLE ELFRED ... NICHOLAS HEREFORD POETRY FROM ALFRED TO THE CONQUEST JOHN PURVEY BRUNANBURH ... ... JOHN ...
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... PROSE STEPHEN GOSSON ... ROBERT HENRYSON GEORGE PUTTENHAM ... WILLIAM DUNBAR WILLIAM CAMDEN WALTER KENNEDY JOHN SPEED ... GAVIN DOUGLAS SIR HENRY SPELMAN ... SIR DAVID LYNDSAY SIR JOHN HAYWARD MINOR POETS AND ANONYMOUS PIECES SIR ROBERT ...
... PROSE STEPHEN GOSSON ... ROBERT HENRYSON GEORGE PUTTENHAM ... WILLIAM DUNBAR WILLIAM CAMDEN WALTER KENNEDY JOHN SPEED ... GAVIN DOUGLAS SIR HENRY SPELMAN ... SIR DAVID LYNDSAY SIR JOHN HAYWARD MINOR POETS AND ANONYMOUS PIECES SIR ROBERT ...
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... LOVELACE SIR JOHN DENHAM ... ABRAHAM COWLEY LORD CLARENDON ANDREW MARVELL ... JOHN BUNYAN SAMUEL BUTLER SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE ISAAC BARROW ROBERT SOUTH JOHN EVELYN influence on the poetry and prose of England . That PAGE PAGE PAGE.
... LOVELACE SIR JOHN DENHAM ... ABRAHAM COWLEY LORD CLARENDON ANDREW MARVELL ... JOHN BUNYAN SAMUEL BUTLER SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE ISAAC BARROW ROBERT SOUTH JOHN EVELYN influence on the poetry and prose of England . That PAGE PAGE PAGE.
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... prose of England . That influence was sometimes great , as at the beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ceased to do ...
... prose of England . That influence was sometimes great , as at the beginning of our literature . Sometimes it was but little , but it always inspired when it came . After King Alfred's days , and for a very long time , it ceased to do ...
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