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 3Chambers, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 89
... original affinity in the temper and genius of the two nations ; and , in addition to that consideration , our great authors were indisputably at once more original and less classical than those of France . England , how- ever , we are ...
... original affinity in the temper and genius of the two nations ; and , in addition to that consideration , our great authors were indisputably at once more original and less classical than those of France . England , how- ever , we are ...
Page 167
... original . There are two or three skits or satires in which the method of ' The house that Jack built ' is ingeniously applied , with all the cumulative repetitions , to such subjects as the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 ...
... original . There are two or three skits or satires in which the method of ' The house that Jack built ' is ingeniously applied , with all the cumulative repetitions , to such subjects as the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 ...
Page 263
... original for ' The Burial of Sir John Moore . ' ' John Anderson , my jo , ' was a mere translation by Burns into Scots of the Latin original , duly produced by the Admirable Crichton - the Scottish version is even extended to The good ...
... original for ' The Burial of Sir John Moore . ' ' John Anderson , my jo , ' was a mere translation by Burns into Scots of the Latin original , duly produced by the Admirable Crichton - the Scottish version is even extended to The good ...
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