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 1 |
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( From Genesis B. ) Prose from Alfred to the Conquest . were Ælfred , though he began the prose of England , failed in establishing it . No results , save one , followed his work till ninety years had passed away .
( From Genesis B. ) Prose from Alfred to the Conquest . were Ælfred , though he began the prose of England , failed in establishing it . No results , save one , followed his work till ninety years had passed away .
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Some of he arrived , too soon ; in 1577 the world of the great prose - writers of the next age were English fancy was not prepared for the multiolder still ; Raleigh was eighteen , Hooker and tudinous experiments of Gascoigne's mind .
Some of he arrived , too soon ; in 1577 the world of the great prose - writers of the next age were English fancy was not prepared for the multiolder still ; Raleigh was eighteen , Hooker and tudinous experiments of Gascoigne's mind .
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came great Elizabethan period , and was not drowned of measured and occasionally elegant prose , until it melted into the grotesque melody although even Lyly is painfully prolix and of the disciples of Donne .
came great Elizabethan period , and was not drowned of measured and occasionally elegant prose , until it melted into the grotesque melody although even Lyly is painfully prolix and of the disciples of Donne .
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| Title | 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 1 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, John Liddell Geddie |
| Author | Robert Chambers |
| Editor | David Patrick |
| Published | 1922 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2010 |
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