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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... Turns . Scorn not the Least . Content and Rich ... Prose - Mary Magdalen's Tears Life hath no Unmeddled Joy . EDMUND SPENSER .. 288 25 55 82 8 83 81 81 SIR THOMAS OVERBURY . Prose Writings ... A Fair and Happy Milkmaid .. WILLIAM ...
... Turns . Scorn not the Least . Content and Rich ... Prose - Mary Magdalen's Tears Life hath no Unmeddled Joy . EDMUND SPENSER .. 288 25 55 82 8 83 81 81 SIR THOMAS OVERBURY . Prose Writings ... A Fair and Happy Milkmaid .. WILLIAM ...
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... turn ; and as each of the ten told a story a day , and as they continued together ten days , the Decameron consists of one hundred tales . 8 Opposite the city of London , on the Thames . 4 For the murder of this famous archbishop in the ...
... turn ; and as each of the ten told a story a day , and as they continued together ten days , the Decameron consists of one hundred tales . 8 Opposite the city of London , on the Thames . 4 For the murder of this famous archbishop in the ...
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... turn . He has much good sense , solid reflection , and useful observation ; but he is serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by ...
... turn . He has much good sense , solid reflection , and useful observation ; but he is serious and didactic on all occasions , preserving the tone of the scholar and the moralist on the most lively topics . Hence he is characterized by ...
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... admirably written life of More in Lord Campbell's " Lives of the Chancellors , ❞— one of the most interesting and instructive biographical works in the language . of both lacked in you , might turn both me 50 [ HENRY VIII . MORE .
... admirably written life of More in Lord Campbell's " Lives of the Chancellors , ❞— one of the most interesting and instructive biographical works in the language . of both lacked in you , might turn both me 50 [ HENRY VIII . MORE .
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Charles Dexter CLEVELAND. of both lacked in you , might turn both me to great sorrow , the realm to much harm , and you to great reproach . For lo ! here is , ( quod she , ) this gentleman , whom I doubt not I could here keep safe , if I ...
Charles Dexter CLEVELAND. of both lacked in you , might turn both me to great sorrow , the realm to much harm , and you to great reproach . For lo ! here is , ( quod she , ) this gentleman , whom I doubt not I could here keep safe , if I ...
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