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Richard William Church. Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in England since Chaucer , and prose - writers since Wycliffe had translated the Bible . Surrey and Wyatt had deserved to live , while a crowd of poets , as ambitious as ...
Richard William Church. Rome , and Italy . There had been poets in England since Chaucer , and prose - writers since Wycliffe had translated the Bible . Surrey and Wyatt had deserved to live , while a crowd of poets , as ambitious as ...
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... England or in the world , to the real facts of human life , and to its deepest thoughts and passions . More is known about the circumstances of Spenser's life than about the lives of many men of letters of that time ; yet our knowledge ...
... England or in the world , to the real facts of human life , and to its deepest thoughts and passions . More is known about the circumstances of Spenser's life than about the lives of many men of letters of that time ; yet our knowledge ...
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... England's glory and the wide world's wonder , Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder , And Hercules two pillars , standing near , Did make to quake and fear . Fair branch of honour , flower of chivalry ! That fillest England ...
... England's glory and the wide world's wonder , Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder , And Hercules two pillars , standing near , Did make to quake and fear . Fair branch of honour , flower of chivalry ! That fillest England ...
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... England , the authority of Elizabeth had established itself , and the in- ternal organization of the Reformed Church was going on , in an uncertain and tentative way , but steadily . There was a struggle between Genevan exiles , who ...
... England , the authority of Elizabeth had established itself , and the in- ternal organization of the Reformed Church was going on , in an uncertain and tentative way , but steadily . There was a struggle between Genevan exiles , who ...
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... England , spread- ing abroad that Elizabeth was a bastard and an apostate , incapable of filling a Christian throne , which belonged by right to the captive Mary . The seed they sowed bore fruit . In the end of the year , southern England ...
... England , spread- ing abroad that Elizabeth was a bastard and an apostate , incapable of filling a Christian throne , which belonged by right to the captive Mary . The seed they sowed bore fruit . In the end of the year , southern England ...
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