A History of English Literature, in a Series of Biographical SketchesT. Nelson and Sons, 1871 - 549 pages |
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... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey 90 VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 94 ... 101 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land ...
... Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey 90 VI . Other Writers of the Second Era .. 94 ... 101 THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- land ...
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... Henry Fielding ..... V. Tobias Smollett .... 306 IX . Oliver Goldsmith .. 334 311 X. Samuel Johnson .. 343 316 XI . Other Writers of the Seventh Era 351 EIGHTH ERA . FROM THE DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 ...
... Henry Fielding ..... V. Tobias Smollett .... 306 IX . Oliver Goldsmith .. 334 311 X. Samuel Johnson .. 343 316 XI . Other Writers of the Seventh Era 351 EIGHTH ERA . FROM THE DEATH OF JOHNSON IN 1784 A.D. TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT IN 1832 ...
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... Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough , may also be named among the crowd of chroniclers who have written on the early history of England . A favourite kind of light reading , often conned by the ...
... Henry of Huntingdon , Roger of Hoveden , and Benedict , Abbot of Peterborough , may also be named among the crowd of chroniclers who have written on the early history of England . A favourite kind of light reading , often conned by the ...
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... Henry II . The central picture of this poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among ...
... Henry II . The central picture of this poem is the minute account of the battle of Has- tings . Wace , who became Canon of Bayeux on the recommendation of Henry II . , is thought to have died in England about 1184 . There are two among ...
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... Henry II . , numbers of short verses are scattered which rhyme together pretty exactly . There are , besides , some eight - syllable lines in imitation of Wace's metre . But , on BIRTH OF OUR METRICAL ROMANCE . 39 the whole ,
... Henry II . , numbers of short verses are scattered which rhyme together pretty exactly . There are , besides , some eight - syllable lines in imitation of Wace's metre . But , on BIRTH OF OUR METRICAL ROMANCE . 39 the whole ,
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