Chamber's Cyclopędia 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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... who flourished about 100 B.c. ) said that the muses would speak with Plautus's tongue if they would speak Latin ; so I say that the muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase if they were to speak English .
... who flourished about 100 B.c. ) said that the muses would speak with Plautus's tongue if they would speak Latin ; so I say that the muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase if they were to speak English .
Page 504
But apparently literary English of the court and of the south . they carefully avoided speaking of their language And ... to speak of the Lowland variably in English , and rather florid English vernacular as Scottis ( see page 164 ) .
But apparently literary English of the court and of the south . they carefully avoided speaking of their language And ... to speak of the Lowland variably in English , and rather florid English vernacular as Scottis ( see page 164 ) .
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Methinks you breathe Another soul ; your looks are more divine ; You speak a hero , and you move a god . Ant . Oh , thou hast fired me ; my soul's up in arms , And mans each part about me . Once again That noble eagerness of fight has ...
Methinks you breathe Another soul ; your looks are more divine ; You speak a hero , and you move a god . Ant . Oh , thou hast fired me ; my soul's up in arms , And mans each part about me . Once again That noble eagerness of fight has ...
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| Title | Chamber's Cyclopędia 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 Cyclopędia 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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