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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... racter against certain imputations which had been thou shalt in all wise flee idleness ; for Solomon saith , cast upon it . Two of the Canterbury Tales are in That idleness teacheth a man to do many evils ; and prose ; and from the ...
... racter against certain imputations which had been thou shalt in all wise flee idleness ; for Solomon saith , cast upon it . Two of the Canterbury Tales are in That idleness teacheth a man to do many evils ; and prose ; and from the ...
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... racter . One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse , which he treats with much humour and characteristic description , and concludes with a beautifully expressed moral . [ Dinner given by the Town Mouse ...
... racter . One of his fables is the common story of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse , which he treats with much humour and characteristic description , and concludes with a beautifully expressed moral . [ Dinner given by the Town Mouse ...
Page 89
... racter of his poetry is its most essential and per- manent feature . We may tire of his allegory and ' dark conceit , ' but the general impression remains ; we never think of the Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of ...
... racter of his poetry is its most essential and per- manent feature . We may tire of his allegory and ' dark conceit , ' but the general impression remains ; we never think of the Faery Queen without recalling its wondrous scenes of ...
Page 154
... racter ; and so widely was the polemical spirit diffused , Queen , in 1562 , says— That limmer lads and little lasses , lo , The Will argue baith with bishop , priest , and friar . Scot wrote several short satires , and some miscella ...
... racter ; and so widely was the polemical spirit diffused , Queen , in 1562 , says— That limmer lads and little lasses , lo , The Will argue baith with bishop , priest , and friar . Scot wrote several short satires , and some miscella ...
Page 179
... racter and passion completed in ' Richard III . ' We know no other dramatist of that early period , ex- cepting Marlow , who could have written those powerful sketches . From the old plays , Shakspeare borrowed no less than 1771 entire ...
... racter and passion completed in ' Richard III . ' We know no other dramatist of that early period , ex- cepting Marlow , who could have written those powerful sketches . From the old plays , Shakspeare borrowed no less than 1771 entire ...
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