The Edinburgh Review, Volume 64A. and C. Black, 1837 |
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... popular book in England was the most glorious poetry in the world . To the sacred volume - which , in a form at once popular yet sublime , was brought home to every man's breast - succeeded the marvels of classical invention . The ...
... popular book in England was the most glorious poetry in the world . To the sacred volume - which , in a form at once popular yet sublime , was brought home to every man's breast - succeeded the marvels of classical invention . The ...
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... popular books in our language , though it is only of late years that the very high qua- lity of genius which characterises that remarkable allegory has been understood or appreciated . The Pilgrim's Progress ' would , perhaps , have ...
... popular books in our language , though it is only of late years that the very high qua- lity of genius which characterises that remarkable allegory has been understood or appreciated . The Pilgrim's Progress ' would , perhaps , have ...
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... popular and fertile of all Chaucer's pupils ) was a Benedictine monk . It was scarcely amongst such acade- mies - the concentrated retreats of song and erudition , that , even had the fifteenth century been a happier and more peaceful ...
... popular and fertile of all Chaucer's pupils ) was a Benedictine monk . It was scarcely amongst such acade- mies - the concentrated retreats of song and erudition , that , even had the fifteenth century been a happier and more peaceful ...
Contents
Sir Thomas Brownes Works including his Life | 1 |
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the site | 35 |
Poggii Epistolæ Editas collegit et emendavit pleras | 60 |
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