A Hand-book of English Literature, Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General Readers |
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Page xxxviii
... leave the specimens of American literature for a second volume . Omitting ( for this purpose ) the American authors , the order suggested was as follows : ―― SCOTT The Lady of the Lake , and prose extracts . GOLDSMITH - The Deserted ...
... leave the specimens of American literature for a second volume . Omitting ( for this purpose ) the American authors , the order suggested was as follows : ―― SCOTT The Lady of the Lake , and prose extracts . GOLDSMITH - The Deserted ...
Page 12
... leave , in men's minds , doth rather blemish and disgrace that we do , than add either beauty or furtherance unto it . On the other side , the faults prevented , the force and efficacy of the thing itself , when it drowneth not utterly ...
... leave , in men's minds , doth rather blemish and disgrace that we do , than add either beauty or furtherance unto it . On the other side , the faults prevented , the force and efficacy of the thing itself , when it drowneth not utterly ...
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... leaves dying , with a most excellent cordial smell ; then the flowers of the vines — it is a little dust like the dust of a bent , ' which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth - then sweetbrier , then wall - flowers , which ...
... leaves dying , with a most excellent cordial smell ; then the flowers of the vines — it is a little dust like the dust of a bent , ' which grows upon the cluster in the first coming forth - then sweetbrier , then wall - flowers , which ...
Page 18
... leave on either side ground enough for diversity of side alleys , unto which the two covert alleys of the green may deliver you ; but there must be no alleys with hedges at either end of this great enclosure — not at the hither end ...
... leave on either side ground enough for diversity of side alleys , unto which the two covert alleys of the green may deliver you ; but there must be no alleys with hedges at either end of this great enclosure — not at the hither end ...
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... leaving the wall of the enclosure breast - high , to look abroad into the fields . For the main garden , I do not deny ... leave the main garden so as it be not close , but the air open and free . For as for shade , I would have you rest ...
... leaving the wall of the enclosure breast - high , to look abroad into the fields . For the main garden , I do not deny ... leave the main garden so as it be not close , but the air open and free . For as for shade , I would have you rest ...
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