English Prose: Selections, Volume 1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 - Literary Collections This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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Selections Sir Henry Craik. ENGLISH PROSE H. CRAIK VOL . I FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH PROSE SELECTIONS WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS BY VARIOUS WRITERS AND.
Selections Sir Henry Craik. ENGLISH PROSE H. CRAIK VOL . I FROM THE FOURTEENTH TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH PROSE SELECTIONS WITH CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS BY VARIOUS WRITERS AND.
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... English Prose , by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers . In the introductory notice to each author , only so much of biographical detail has been given as may enable the reader to judge the general circum ...
... English Prose , by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers . In the introductory notice to each author , only so much of biographical detail has been given as may enable the reader to judge the general circum ...
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... English Poets 436 GEORGE PUTTENHAM ( 1589 ) W. P. Ker 44I English Poets 443 LORD BURLEIGH ( 1520-1598 ) W. Minto 447 Ten Precepts 448 SPENSER ( 1552-1599 ) J. W. Hales 453 Irish Costume Irish Bards The Misery of Ireland RICHARD HOOKER ...
... English Poets 436 GEORGE PUTTENHAM ( 1589 ) W. P. Ker 44I English Poets 443 LORD BURLEIGH ( 1520-1598 ) W. Minto 447 Ten Precepts 448 SPENSER ( 1552-1599 ) J. W. Hales 453 Irish Costume Irish Bards The Misery of Ireland RICHARD HOOKER ...
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... Braggart's Fate 593 TIMOTHY BRIGHT ( 1551-1615 ) Norman Moore 595 How the Soul by one Simple Faculty performeth so many and Divers Actions 596 NOTES 599 INTRODUCTION THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE THE attraction of xiv ENGLISH PROSE.
... Braggart's Fate 593 TIMOTHY BRIGHT ( 1551-1615 ) Norman Moore 595 How the Soul by one Simple Faculty performeth so many and Divers Actions 596 NOTES 599 INTRODUCTION THE EARLIER HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE THE attraction of xiv ENGLISH PROSE.
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... English language from its literary rank , and brought in a new language for the politer literature . It did not destroy , in one sense it did not absolutely interrupt , English literature ; but it took away the English literary standard ...
... English language from its literary rank , and brought in a new language for the politer literature . It did not destroy , in one sense it did not absolutely interrupt , English literature ; but it took away the English literary standard ...
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