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Page vii
... friend Professor Samuel R. Gardiner has shown me in allowing me to see and use the unfinished MS . of the forthcoming volume of his History , and in leading me to MS . sources of seven- teenth - century information . It is wholly owing ...
... friend Professor Samuel R. Gardiner has shown me in allowing me to see and use the unfinished MS . of the forthcoming volume of his History , and in leading me to MS . sources of seven- teenth - century information . It is wholly owing ...
Page ix
... friend would rise , thro ' storm and wind , To mind . The fluted conchs that came Long since in Salem merchant - ships to town , With polished porcelain lips and ridges brown , Faint perfumed from the isles of eastern name A - flame ...
... friend would rise , thro ' storm and wind , To mind . The fluted conchs that came Long since in Salem merchant - ships to town , With polished porcelain lips and ridges brown , Faint perfumed from the isles of eastern name A - flame ...
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... friend , Mr Austin Dobson , has proposed to me the term overflow1 for these verses in which the sense is not concluded at the end of one line or of one couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and ...
... friend , Mr Austin Dobson , has proposed to me the term overflow1 for these verses in which the sense is not concluded at the end of one line or of one couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and ...
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... friend of Shakespeare , Michael Drayton , had written a serene and lovely poem , in his leisurely way , on a period of English history . If I mention The Barons ' Wars here , it is not with any notion of comparing it with the crude ...
... friend of Shakespeare , Michael Drayton , had written a serene and lovely poem , in his leisurely way , on a period of English history . If I mention The Barons ' Wars here , it is not with any notion of comparing it with the crude ...
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... friendship side by side . The brief period of splendid lawless- ness on the high seas in the days of Elizabeth had told on the literature of this country , as the adventures of the Greeks told on the tragedies of Eschylus , or as the ...
... friendship side by side . The brief period of splendid lawless- ness on the high seas in the days of Elizabeth had told on the literature of this country , as the adventures of the Greeks told on the tragedies of Eschylus , or as the ...
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