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... Lyly . Euphues , 1579 ( last page ) IV Robert Greene . Pandosto , 1592 . v Sir Philip Sidney . The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia , 1590 • vi Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . The His- tory of Don Quixote , 1612 ( First Eng- lish ...
... Lyly . Euphues , 1579 ( last page ) IV Robert Greene . Pandosto , 1592 . v Sir Philip Sidney . The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia , 1590 • vi Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra . The His- tory of Don Quixote , 1612 ( First Eng- lish ...
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... LYLY ( 1554 ? -1606 ) AND EUPHUISM It seems to have been the success of the various compilations and translations like Painter's Pal- ace of Pleasure which encouraged John Lyly to produce his Euphues , which has been called the first ...
... LYLY ( 1554 ? -1606 ) AND EUPHUISM It seems to have been the success of the various compilations and translations like Painter's Pal- ace of Pleasure which encouraged John Lyly to produce his Euphues , which has been called the first ...
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... LYLY , MAISTER OF ARTE . . . IMPRINTED AT LONDON FOR GABRIELL CAWOOD · First edition . Quarto . Black letter . 1580 . No perfect copy of this first edition of Lyly's continuation of Euphues seems to exist . At least one other edition ...
... LYLY , MAISTER OF ARTE . . . IMPRINTED AT LONDON FOR GABRIELL CAWOOD · First edition . Quarto . Black letter . 1580 . No perfect copy of this first edition of Lyly's continuation of Euphues seems to exist . At least one other edition ...
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Grolier Club. ROBERT GREENE ( 1560 ? -1592 ) One of Lyly's foremost " legatees and executors , " as his disciples claimed themselves to be , was Robert Greene , who left a larger contribution to the novel literature of his day than any ...
Grolier Club. ROBERT GREENE ( 1560 ? -1592 ) One of Lyly's foremost " legatees and executors , " as his disciples claimed themselves to be , was Robert Greene , who left a larger contribution to the novel literature of his day than any ...
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... Lyly . His best known novel is the pastoral tale Rosalynde , later issued as Euphues Golden Legacie , which furnished the plot of As You Like It . In it the author describes himself as a soldier and sailor offering to his readers " the ...
... Lyly . His best known novel is the pastoral tale Rosalynde , later issued as Euphues Golden Legacie , which furnished the plot of As You Like It . In it the author describes himself as a soldier and sailor offering to his readers " the ...
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ADVENTURES Aphra Behn Arcadia ARGENIS Arthur BEECHER Behn Black letter BOSTON CAXTON character CHARLES READE DICKENS Don Quixote Duodecimo Dutch early Elizabethan England English edition English Novel Euphues fame Fielding Folio Four volumes France Frontispiece GEORGE ELIOT Godwin Gothic romance Hawthorne HENRY History of English Humphry Clinker ILLUSTRATIONS imitated IMPRINTED AT LONDON inal cloth issued Italian Jane Eyre John Bunyan JOHN LYLY Joseph Andrews knyghts Latin lished literature LONDON PRINTED Lyly Malory mances Mary Miss monthly numbers novelist Octavo Orig Original cloth perfect copy picaresque Pickwick PLATE popular preface Pride and Prejudice Professor Cross published Quarto Raleigh reprinted RICHARD Richardson ROBERT COPLAND ROBERT GREENE Saintsbury SAMUEL Scarlet Letter Scott sentiment seventeenth century Sidney Sir Walter sketches Smollett Spanish story TALE Thackeray THOMAS MALORY Three volumes tion title-page trans translated into French Waverley WILLIAM PAINTER William Stansby woodcuts writes written wrote Wynkyn de Worde YORK
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