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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N building up the great fabric of English literature Scottish writers have had no unimportant share . ... But at the beginnings of English speaking and writing , the words Scot , Scottish , and their derivatives meant something widely ...
N building up the great fabric of English literature Scottish writers have had no unimportant share . ... But at the beginnings of English speaking and writing , the words Scot , Scottish , and their derivatives meant something widely ...
Page 431
In one of his in writing his plays to be acted rather than read , prologues he adverts to the various sources of his ... With Greene he was one To give content to this most curious age , of the earliest of English professional writers ...
In one of his in writing his plays to be acted rather than read , prologues he adverts to the various sources of his ... With Greene he was one To give content to this most curious age , of the earliest of English professional writers ...
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But these imitators , able as they were from 1650 , was still writing for the press in the ( such men as Carew , Randolph ... Younger writers in a later , section of this work . cultivated lucidity of expression , and their Though the ...
But these imitators , able as they were from 1650 , was still writing for the press in the ( such men as Carew , Randolph ... Younger writers in a later , section of this work . cultivated lucidity of expression , and their Though the ...
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