A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical SketchesNelson, 1892 - 550 pages |
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... essays and reviews . Round the naked stone walls wooden chests are ranged , heaped with the precious manuscripts , to multi- ply and adorn which is the task of those cowled and dark - skirted men who toil in that work - room of the ...
... essays and reviews . Round the naked stone walls wooden chests are ranged , heaped with the precious manuscripts , to multi- ply and adorn which is the task of those cowled and dark - skirted men who toil in that work - room of the ...
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... Essays . Marriage . Lord Chancellor . Novum Organum . Impeachment . Degradation . Latest works . Death . Plan of the Instauratio . Style of his Essays . Illustrative extract . " My name and memory I leave to foreign nations , and to ...
... Essays . Marriage . Lord Chancellor . Novum Organum . Impeachment . Degradation . Latest works . Death . Plan of the Instauratio . Style of his Essays . Illustrative extract . " My name and memory I leave to foreign nations , and to ...
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... Essays , which form his chief English work , and entitle him to the fame of holding a first rank among 1597 the grand old masters of English prose . When first A.D. published in 1597 , the " Essays " were only ten in number ; but others ...
... Essays , which form his chief English work , and entitle him to the fame of holding a first rank among 1597 the grand old masters of English prose . When first A.D. published in 1597 , the " Essays " were only ten in number ; but others ...
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... Essays , the composition of his History of King Henry VII . , a phi- losophical fiction called The New Atlantis , and that part of his great work which relates to Natural History . Heavy debts still hung upon him . He applied for the ...
... Essays , the composition of his History of King Henry VII . , a phi- losophical fiction called The New Atlantis , and that part of his great work which relates to Natural History . Heavy debts still hung upon him . He applied for the ...
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... Essays , or Counsels Civil and Moral , of which ten were published in 1597 , were afterwards greatly increased in number and extent , being especially enriched with the brighter blossoms of their great author's matured fancy . In this ...
... Essays , or Counsels Civil and Moral , of which ten were published in 1597 , were afterwards greatly increased in number and extent , being especially enriched with the brighter blossoms of their great author's matured fancy . In this ...
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