A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms |
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... fancy , then it is hard , because men's fancies change , to give that is old . Ye will have the old stile . Will ye have any older than that as Christ left , and his apostles taught , and the first church did use ? Ye will have that the ...
... fancy , then it is hard , because men's fancies change , to give that is old . Ye will have the old stile . Will ye have any older than that as Christ left , and his apostles taught , and the first church did use ? Ye will have that the ...
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... fancy , they are peculiarly pleasing for the simplicity of their diction , and especially for the fine moral truths and lessons they convey . TIMES GO BY TURNS . The lopped tree in time may grow again , Most naked plants renew both ...
... fancy , they are peculiarly pleasing for the simplicity of their diction , and especially for the fine moral truths and lessons they convey . TIMES GO BY TURNS . The lopped tree in time may grow again , Most naked plants renew both ...
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... Fancy's pleasing son , Who , like a copious river , pour'd his song O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground . THOMSON . EDMUND SPENSER , ' the illustrious author of the " Faerie Queene , " was born in London , 1553. Of his parentage ...
... Fancy's pleasing son , Who , like a copious river , pour'd his song O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground . THOMSON . EDMUND SPENSER , ' the illustrious author of the " Faerie Queene , " was born in London , 1553. Of his parentage ...
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... fancy might even be pardoned for a momentary superstition , that the genius of their country overed , unseen , over their meeting , casting her first look of regard on the poet that was destined to inspire her future Milton , and the ...
... fancy might even be pardoned for a momentary superstition , that the genius of their country overed , unseen , over their meeting , casting her first look of regard on the poet that was destined to inspire her future Milton , and the ...
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... fancy . The invention shown in his allegorical personages is endless , as the fancy shown in his description of them is gorgeous and delightful . He is the poet of romance . He describes things as in a splendid and voluptuous dream ...
... fancy . The invention shown in his allegorical personages is endless , as the fancy shown in his description of them is gorgeous and delightful . He is the poet of romance . He describes things as in a splendid and voluptuous dream ...
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