A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper. Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Choice Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory and Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms...E. C. and J. Biddle, 1847 - 702 pages |
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... tion without Virtue , 509 The Love of Praise , The Wedded Wit , 572 573 The Languid Lady , 511 Muse , 575 WILLIAM FALCONER , 512 SAMUEL JOHNSON , 578 The Vessel going to Pieces , Death of Albert the Com . mander , Lines of Garrick ...
... tion without Virtue , 509 The Love of Praise , The Wedded Wit , 572 573 The Languid Lady , 511 Muse , 575 WILLIAM FALCONER , 512 SAMUEL JOHNSON , 578 The Vessel going to Pieces , Death of Albert the Com . mander , Lines of Garrick ...
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... tion , remained in the obscurity of manuscript , till the beginning of the last century ; but his fame since then has been continually rising . His chief poems are THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE , THE DANCE , and THE GOLDEN TERGE . The ...
... tion , remained in the obscurity of manuscript , till the beginning of the last century ; but his fame since then has been continually rising . His chief poems are THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE , THE DANCE , and THE GOLDEN TERGE . The ...
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... tion of that skill in the learned languages so essential to the successful accomplishment of that enterprise which he was so soon to take upon himself . Soon after leaving the University , he became tutor and chaplain in the family of ...
... tion of that skill in the learned languages so essential to the successful accomplishment of that enterprise which he was so soon to take upon himself . Soon after leaving the University , he became tutor and chaplain in the family of ...
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... tion ; and he obtained the praise of uniting in his character things in them- selves seemingly discordant ; brilliant wit , and purity of thought ; the ease of the courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what distinguished him ...
... tion ; and he obtained the praise of uniting in his character things in them- selves seemingly discordant ; brilliant wit , and purity of thought ; the ease of the courtier and the gravity of the Christian . But what distinguished him ...
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... tion of an audience , and not less so to impress them with moral truths , than a being who only represented a notion of the mind . The substitution of these for the symbolical characters , gradually took place during the earlier part of ...
... tion of an audience , and not less so to impress them with moral truths , than a being who only represented a notion of the mind . The substitution of these for the symbolical characters , gradually took place during the earlier part of ...
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