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... masterpieces as Ralph Holinshed's Chronicles of England , Scotlande , and Irelande ( 1577 ) , Shakespeare's source for ... masterpiece ) John Foxe's Actes and Monuments of these latter perilous times touching matters of the Church ( in ...
... masterpieces as Ralph Holinshed's Chronicles of England , Scotlande , and Irelande ( 1577 ) , Shakespeare's source for ... masterpiece ) John Foxe's Actes and Monuments of these latter perilous times touching matters of the Church ( in ...
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... masterpiece with a perennial literary appeal . He also inspired one of Izaak Walton's small masterpieces — the Life of Richard Hooker ( in Walton's Lives : see below , pp . 249 , 293-4 ) . While Richard Hakluyt ( ? 1552-1616 ) was ...
... masterpiece with a perennial literary appeal . He also inspired one of Izaak Walton's small masterpieces — the Life of Richard Hooker ( in Walton's Lives : see below , pp . 249 , 293-4 ) . While Richard Hakluyt ( ? 1552-1616 ) was ...
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... masterpiece in its kind , and devoted to it most of that number of the paper . Of the major parts of the Essay on Criticism Addison remarked that ' The Observations ... are placed in so beautiful a Light , and illustrated with such apt ...
... masterpiece in its kind , and devoted to it most of that number of the paper . Of the major parts of the Essay on Criticism Addison remarked that ' The Observations ... are placed in so beautiful a Light , and illustrated with such apt ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE 3333 | 43 |
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