A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. and J. Biddle, 1852 - 776 pages |
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... Fame 32 A Yeoman of Henry VII.'s Time Examined before the Bishops 65 66 Eagle's Flight with the Poet . Pope's Imitation , ( note ) The Flower and the Leaf . Prose - Upon Riches .. WILLIAM DUNBAR SIR THOMAS MORE .. JOHN GOWER ...
... Fame 32 A Yeoman of Henry VII.'s Time Examined before the Bishops 65 66 Eagle's Flight with the Poet . Pope's Imitation , ( note ) The Flower and the Leaf . Prose - Upon Riches .. WILLIAM DUNBAR SIR THOMAS MORE .. JOHN GOWER ...
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... Fame to be kept bright by Activity ... 141 The Commonwealth of Bees .. 90 Prose - Mary Magdalen's Tears ・・ Life hath no Unmeddled Joy . 92 Address to Melancholy . The Life of Man . EDMUND SPENSER . 93 Morning .. 142 143 143 144 144 ...
... Fame to be kept bright by Activity ... 141 The Commonwealth of Bees .. 90 Prose - Mary Magdalen's Tears ・・ Life hath no Unmeddled Joy . 92 Address to Melancholy . The Life of Man . EDMUND SPENSER . 93 Morning .. 142 143 143 144 144 ...
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... Fame .. 455 The Scale of Being .. 456 Ruin .... Omnipresence of the Deity . 457 Address to Bolingbroke . 457 The Toilet ... 458 Description of Belinda .. 458 Winter Song .. The Baron offers Sacrifice for Success . 459 The Sylphs - their ...
... Fame .. 455 The Scale of Being .. 456 Ruin .... Omnipresence of the Deity . 457 Address to Bolingbroke . 457 The Toilet ... 458 Description of Belinda .. 458 Winter Song .. The Baron offers Sacrifice for Success . 459 The Sylphs - their ...
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... Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled . SPENSER . That noble Chaucer , in those former times , Who first enriched our English with his rhymes , And was the first of ours that ever broke Into the Muse's treasures , and first spoke ...
... Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled . SPENSER . That noble Chaucer , in those former times , Who first enriched our English with his rhymes , And was the first of ours that ever broke Into the Muse's treasures , and first spoke ...
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... fame . On his return home , the friendship and patronage of the reigning monarch were continued to him . He was made controller of the customs of wine and wool , the revenue from which office , together with a pension that was granted ...
... fame . On his return home , the friendship and patronage of the reigning monarch were continued to him . He was made controller of the customs of wine and wool , the revenue from which office , together with a pension that was granted ...
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