The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama. In Two Volumes, Том 2Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1810 |
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... composition to which they , as well as Dempster " , allude , is the identical sum- mary quoted by Polydore Virgil . While he was thus employed in vindicating what he deemed the honour of his native country , a process was in his absence ...
... composition to which they , as well as Dempster " , allude , is the identical sum- mary quoted by Polydore Virgil . While he was thus employed in vindicating what he deemed the honour of his native country , a process was in his absence ...
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... composition may remind the reader of the general plan of Phineas Fletcher's Purple Island ; a work which exhibits a striking exam ple of the misapplication of fine poetical talents . Yet that Douglas and Fletcher should have adopt- ed ...
... composition may remind the reader of the general plan of Phineas Fletcher's Purple Island ; a work which exhibits a striking exam ple of the misapplication of fine poetical talents . Yet that Douglas and Fletcher should have adopt- ed ...
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... composition . Even among the writers of the present æra , the rules of Eng- lish grammar seem to be too little understood : in the elaborate pages of Dr Blair many solecisms may be detected . The grammar of the Scotish language was ...
... composition . Even among the writers of the present æra , the rules of Eng- lish grammar seem to be too little understood : in the elaborate pages of Dr Blair many solecisms may be detected . The grammar of the Scotish language was ...
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... composition as a version of the Eneid . Douglas bestows severe castigation on Caxton for his pre- sumptuous deviation from the classical story ; and affirms that his work no more resembles Virgil than the Devil resembles St Austin , He ...
... composition as a version of the Eneid . Douglas bestows severe castigation on Caxton for his pre- sumptuous deviation from the classical story ; and affirms that his work no more resembles Virgil than the Devil resembles St Austin , He ...
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... composition . Melanchthon was a rhetorician of considerable reputation and in his introduction to the art 2 , a Melanchthonis Elementorum Rhetorices libri duo . 8vo . It is not however certain that this is the first edition . 1 Paris ...
... composition . Melanchthon was a rhetorician of considerable reputation and in his introduction to the art 2 , a Melanchthonis Elementorum Rhetorices libri duo . 8vo . It is not however certain that this is the first edition . 1 Paris ...
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