Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... appeared ; it is a new thing still : and it is not easy to conceive that a labour so con- centrated and so continuous , so sustained and so single - minded , can fail of length of days . From the history of a people to the history of ...
... appeared ; it is a new thing still : and it is not easy to conceive that a labour so con- centrated and so continuous , so sustained and so single - minded , can fail of length of days . From the history of a people to the history of ...
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... appearance . By that time Pope had been dead for more than four- and - forty years . His influence was still felt , and ... appeared in the same year , a considerable change had already come over the spirit of English poetry since Pope's ...
... appearance . By that time Pope had been dead for more than four- and - forty years . His influence was still felt , and ... appeared in the same year , a considerable change had already come over the spirit of English poetry since Pope's ...
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... appeared in 1699. Pope all the while was a child in his father's home in London , and Addison was writing negligible ... appearance of Toland ( 1696 ) and Tindal , and the beginning of that ' Deistical ' move- ment which was to be so ...
... appeared in 1699. Pope all the while was a child in his father's home in London , and Addison was writing negligible ... appearance of Toland ( 1696 ) and Tindal , and the beginning of that ' Deistical ' move- ment which was to be so ...
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... appeared between the Revolution and the end of the century ; they were all in folio , and had but a small circulation . Magazines , of course , there were none , while the newspapers which sprang up after the liberation of the press ...
... appeared between the Revolution and the end of the century ; they were all in folio , and had but a small circulation . Magazines , of course , there were none , while the newspapers which sprang up after the liberation of the press ...
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... appeared in 1687 as the truly epoch- making Philo- sophia Naturalis Principia Mathe- matica . To New- ton we owe like- wise discoveries by which the science of optics was so entirely changed that he may very justly be termed its founder ...
... appeared in 1687 as the truly epoch- making Philo- sophia Naturalis Principia Mathe- matica . To New- ton we owe like- wise discoveries by which the science of optics was so entirely changed that he may very justly be termed its founder ...
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