A Compendium of English Literature, chronologically arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper ... Stereotype editionE. C. & J. Biddle, 1850 - 776 pages |
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... seems to me , is a most curious and remarkable passage , for we must remember that it was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the discovery of America . It proves , beyond a doubt , that Mandeville had a distinct idea of ...
... seems to me , is a most curious and remarkable passage , for we must remember that it was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the discovery of America . It proves , beyond a doubt , that Mandeville had a distinct idea of ...
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... seem to have been very small . In Chaucer's " Troilus and Cresseide " we find the same place indifferently called a ... seems here to be used as a musical term . Come , summer , come ! the sweet season and 1422-1461 . ] 39 JAMES I. OF ...
... seem to have been very small . In Chaucer's " Troilus and Cresseide " we find the same place indifferently called a ... seems here to be used as a musical term . Come , summer , come ! the sweet season and 1422-1461 . ] 39 JAMES I. OF ...
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... me sigh . 7 This seems to mean complain ; but should it not rather be playen , to play or sport ? ยท 8 Started back . 9 Then a little . 10 More . Why lest1 God make you so , my dearest heart 40 [ HENRY VI . JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND .
... me sigh . 7 This seems to mean complain ; but should it not rather be playen , to play or sport ? ยท 8 Started back . 9 Then a little . 10 More . Why lest1 God make you so , my dearest heart 40 [ HENRY VI . JAMES I. OF SCOTLAND .
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... seems to me they must , the merit of the invention is due to John Guttenburg , of Mentz , who used them about 1440 : while Schoeffer , in conjunction with Faust , was the first who founded types of metal . From all the arguments and ...
... seems to me they must , the merit of the invention is due to John Guttenburg , of Mentz , who used them about 1440 : while Schoeffer , in conjunction with Faust , was the first who founded types of metal . From all the arguments and ...
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... seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos- sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of losing . 5 Warton says that this ode ...
... seems to mean " something worth possessing : " for the sense of the passage is " once gotten not worth pos- sessing . " 4 " Jewel of jeopardy ; " that is , a jewel which there is much danger of losing . 5 Warton says that this ode ...
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