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... English puritan , that figure which , however we apprehend it , must figure so largely in any account that we give of our seventeenth century - what happens to him when the seventeenth century becomes the eighteenth ? If we asked ...
... English puritan , that figure which , however we apprehend it , must figure so largely in any account that we give of our seventeenth century - what happens to him when the seventeenth century becomes the eighteenth ? If we asked ...
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... English congregational hymn that we never pause to wonder who created that rhetoric . ( Watts did , almost single- handed . ) But we ought not to be so charitable , not to ourselves nor to our mentors of this and of preceding ...
... English congregational hymn that we never pause to wonder who created that rhetoric . ( Watts did , almost single- handed . ) But we ought not to be so charitable , not to ourselves nor to our mentors of this and of preceding ...
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... English from Old French in mediaeval times it referred to the twitter of birds . But by the seventeenth century it meant , as it does today , gibberish or canting terminology . 74 levelling at GOD his wandring Guess : sustains very ...
... English from Old French in mediaeval times it referred to the twitter of birds . But by the seventeenth century it meant , as it does today , gibberish or canting terminology . 74 levelling at GOD his wandring Guess : sustains very ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
Copyright | |
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