Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... death - blow to all learning and Danish Invasions . culture . It was the North which suffered most severely from these attacks , and the monasteries , the homes of civilization and learning , were the special object of their animosity ...
... death - blow to all learning and Danish Invasions . culture . It was the North which suffered most severely from these attacks , and the monasteries , the homes of civilization and learning , were the special object of their animosity ...
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... death of Burleigh , and held the office till his death in 1608. He was the author of the first English Tragedy , Gorboduc , or Ferrex and Porrex , and he planned a collection of narratives by several poets on the misfortunes of the ...
... death of Burleigh , and held the office till his death in 1608. He was the author of the first English Tragedy , Gorboduc , or Ferrex and Porrex , and he planned a collection of narratives by several poets on the misfortunes of the ...
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... Death of a Favourite Cat . Two Pindaric odes were published in 1758 : The Progress of Poetry , a survey of the history of poetry from classical times to the death of Dryden , and The Bard , a romantic poem which represents one of the ...
... Death of a Favourite Cat . Two Pindaric odes were published in 1758 : The Progress of Poetry , a survey of the history of poetry from classical times to the death of Dryden , and The Bard , a romantic poem which represents one of the ...
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