Historical Sketches of English and American Literature: Embracing an Account of the Principal Productions of the Most Distinguished Authors in Great Britain and the United States, from the Earliest to the Present Period ...Edward Hopkins, 1845 - 328 páginas |
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... Edinburgh and Cupar- in - Fife , and was supposed to have some effect in causing the overthrow of the Catholic church in Scotland . The reign of Henry VIII . , extending from 1509 to 1548 , produced some writers , both in prose and ...
... Edinburgh and Cupar- in - Fife , and was supposed to have some effect in causing the overthrow of the Catholic church in Scotland . The reign of Henry VIII . , extending from 1509 to 1548 , produced some writers , both in prose and ...
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... Edinburgh Review considers incomparably the best part of the Mirrour for Magis- trates , and a production of great value . The Mirrour for Magistrates was a series of poems published at that period . To Sackville succeeded Churchyard ...
... Edinburgh Review considers incomparably the best part of the Mirrour for Magis- trates , and a production of great value . The Mirrour for Magistrates was a series of poems published at that period . To Sackville succeeded Churchyard ...
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... Edinburgh Review , XVIII . 275 . + Dates given in this form , and in connexion with names , throughout the present volume , refer to the birth and death of the individuals to whose names they are attached . elaborate allegorical poem ...
... Edinburgh Review , XVIII . 275 . + Dates given in this form , and in connexion with names , throughout the present volume , refer to the birth and death of the individuals to whose names they are attached . elaborate allegorical poem ...
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... Edinburgh , wrote serious and senti- mental poetry , of no small celebrity both in his own and in later times . Drummond was by birth and cir- cumstances a gentleman , and , it would appear , of a mel- ancholy , though amiable and ...
... Edinburgh , wrote serious and senti- mental poetry , of no small celebrity both in his own and in later times . Drummond was by birth and cir- cumstances a gentleman , and , it would appear , of a mel- ancholy , though amiable and ...
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... heads standing as much in want Of ploughing as their ground : to hear a fellow Make himself merry and his horse with whistling * Edinburgh Review , XVIII . 289 . Sellinger's round ; t'observe with what solemnity They keep their 6.
... heads standing as much in want Of ploughing as their ground : to hear a fellow Make himself merry and his horse with whistling * Edinburgh Review , XVIII . 289 . Sellinger's round ; t'observe with what solemnity They keep their 6.
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