A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on English MetresLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1862 - 423 pages |
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... lives , abroad . Alex- ander Hales , the Irrefragable , the master of St. Bona- venture , was the author of the first important commentary on the work of Peter Lombard , and died at Paris , in 1245 . Duns Scotus , the Subtle doctor ...
... lives , abroad . Alex- ander Hales , the Irrefragable , the master of St. Bona- venture , was the author of the first important commentary on the work of Peter Lombard , and died at Paris , in 1245 . Duns Scotus , the Subtle doctor ...
Page 43
... Lives of Saints ; some , lastly , short poems on devotional topics , such as the Crucifixion , and the Blessed Virgin under the Rood . In each of these classes poems are ex- tant , the antiquated style and language of which require us ...
... Lives of Saints ; some , lastly , short poems on devotional topics , such as the Crucifixion , and the Blessed Virgin under the Rood . In each of these classes poems are ex- tant , the antiquated style and language of which require us ...
Page 68
... Percy's Reliques . The pith of the * Hazlitt's Johnson's Lives , article Kaye . story is exactly that which we find in Burns ' 68 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . -SCOTTISH POETS: Henryson, Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, Lyndsay.
... Percy's Reliques . The pith of the * Hazlitt's Johnson's Lives , article Kaye . story is exactly that which we find in Burns ' 68 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE . -SCOTTISH POETS: Henryson, Dunbar, Gawain Douglas, Lyndsay.
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... lives and property were afraid to express a free opinion , or act an open , independent part . Doubt , sus- pense , and mutual mistrust , paralysed all spontaneous action . At Elizabeth's accession , the perplexed and intimidated nation ...
... lives and property were afraid to express a free opinion , or act an open , independent part . Doubt , sus- pense , and mutual mistrust , paralysed all spontaneous action . At Elizabeth's accession , the perplexed and intimidated nation ...
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... live in Pytha- goras , so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous honey - tongued Shakspeare . Witness his Venus and Ado- nis ; his Lucrece ; ' his sugared sonnets among his private friends . " These , together with such ...
... live in Pytha- goras , so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous honey - tongued Shakspeare . Witness his Venus and Ado- nis ; his Lucrece ; ' his sugared sonnets among his private friends . " These , together with such ...
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