Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from Earliest to the Present Time : Connected by a Critical and Biographical HistoryRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account ...
... poem which excelled in beauty all that they were accustomed to hear . He afterwards yielded to the earnest ... poems on the Bible histories , and on miscellaneous religious subjects , and some of these have been preserved . His account ...
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... poem entitled Le Brut D'Angleterre ( Brutus of England ) . The chief hero was an imaginary son of Æneas of Troy , who was represented as having founded the state of Britain many centuries before the Christian era . This was no creation ...
... poem entitled Le Brut D'Angleterre ( Brutus of England ) . The chief hero was an imaginary son of Æneas of Troy , who was represented as having founded the state of Britain many centuries before the Christian era . This was no creation ...
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... poem of a moral and religious nature , entitled The Pricke of Conscience ; but of the latter work it is not certainly known that he composed it in English , there being some reason for believing that , in its present form , it is a ...
... poem of a moral and religious nature , entitled The Pricke of Conscience ; but of the latter work it is not certainly known that he composed it in English , there being some reason for believing that , in its present form , it is a ...
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... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poets ever met , the Italian journey of Chaucer , and the fame of Petrarch , must have kindled his poetical ambition ...
... poem of the Dream . Chaucer and ' time - honoured Gaunt ' became closely connected . The former mar- ried Philippa ... poets ever met , the Italian journey of Chaucer , and the fame of Petrarch , must have kindled his poetical ambition ...
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... poems are the Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , with some fine description ; and Troilus ... poem , and it was long po- pular . Warton and every subsequent critic have quoted with just admiration the passage ...
... poems are the Flower and Leaf , a spirited and graceful allegorical poem , with some fine description ; and Troilus ... poem , and it was long po- pular . Warton and every subsequent critic have quoted with just admiration the passage ...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualització completa - 1853 |
Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ... Robert Chambers Visualització completa - 1848 |
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