A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 էջ |
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... DEATH OF JOHNSON I. Literary Life in the Eighteenth .............. IN 1784 A.D. 294 Century II . James Thomson ... DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 A.D. I. Some Notes on Poetry and Criti- cism ....... V ...
... DEATH OF JOHNSON I. Literary Life in the Eighteenth .............. IN 1784 A.D. 294 Century II . James Thomson ... DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 A.D. I. Some Notes on Poetry and Criti- cism ....... V ...
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... death of our Saviour . From the similarity of subject , a likeness has been traced between him and Milton , upon which a charge of plagiarism against our great epic poet has been most foolishly grounded . It is believed that Caedmon ...
... death of our Saviour . From the similarity of subject , a likeness has been traced between him and Milton , upon which a charge of plagiarism against our great epic poet has been most foolishly grounded . It is believed that Caedmon ...
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... death fifty - six years later the cloisters of Wearmouth were his home ; and within their quiet seclusion he wrote the great work , on which his title to the name Venerable is justly founded . In his fifty - ninth year he brought to a ...
... death fifty - six years later the cloisters of Wearmouth were his home ; and within their quiet seclusion he wrote the great work , on which his title to the name Venerable is justly founded . In his fifty - ninth year he brought to a ...
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... death . The names of Merlin the enchanter , the false knight Lancelot , and others , familiar to the thousands who have read the " Idylls of the King , " constantly occur in the romances of Arthur . As has been already stated , the ...
... death . The names of Merlin the enchanter , the false knight Lancelot , and others , familiar to the thousands who have read the " Idylls of the King , " constantly occur in the romances of Arthur . As has been already stated , the ...
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... death . His bones burned . The English Bible . Character of his prose . Illustrative extract . * On a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . There ...
... death . His bones burned . The English Bible . Character of his prose . Illustrative extract . * On a rocky point , overhanging the Tees in Yorkshire , a manor- house stood , in which once lived the Wycliffes of Wycliffe . There ...
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