Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4T. Bensley, 1816 - English literature |
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Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. OR , TITLES , EXTRACTS , AND CHARACTERS OF Old Books IN ENGLISH LITERATURE , REVIVED . BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES , BART . K. J. M. P. VOL ...
Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. OR , TITLES , EXTRACTS , AND CHARACTERS OF Old Books IN ENGLISH LITERATURE , REVIVED . BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES , BART . K. J. M. P. VOL ...
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... English literature , more especially its poetry , sets him above the painful feeling of toil thrown away , or days idly spent . It is nothing to him if the superficial or the ignorant , the jester or the man of daily common - place ...
... English literature , more especially its poetry , sets him above the painful feeling of toil thrown away , or days idly spent . It is nothing to him if the superficial or the ignorant , the jester or the man of daily common - place ...
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Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. poems ) : and in prose , Greene's Groatsworth of Wit ; Lord Brook's Life of Sydney , & c . These form al- most a little library of ...
Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. poems ) : and in prose , Greene's Groatsworth of Wit ; Lord Brook's Life of Sydney , & c . These form al- most a little library of ...
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Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. The RESTITUTA , with the BIBLIOGRAPHER , and CENSURA LITERARIA , make eighteen volumes of contribution to the study of Old English ...
Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed Sir Egerton Brydges. The RESTITUTA , with the BIBLIOGRAPHER , and CENSURA LITERARIA , make eighteen volumes of contribution to the study of Old English ...
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... English . ..... 140 Leyden's Lai of the Ettercap .... 212 Jordan's Wit in a Wildernesse of Poesie . 265 Ferrour's Portrait of a Prince .... 285 Pyrrye's Praise and Dispraise of Women . 312 Dee's Verses against Popery . Tam Martis quan ...
... English . ..... 140 Leyden's Lai of the Ettercap .... 212 Jordan's Wit in a Wildernesse of Poesie . 265 Ferrour's Portrait of a Prince .... 285 Pyrrye's Praise and Dispraise of Women . 312 Dee's Verses against Popery . Tam Martis quan ...
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