Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... leave , in this survey , to regard the Eighteenth Century in Literature as con- current with the Eighteenth Century in Chron- ology that is to say , as extending from the end of 1700 ( the year in which Dryden died ) to the end of the ...
... leave , in this survey , to regard the Eighteenth Century in Literature as con- current with the Eighteenth Century in Chron- ology that is to say , as extending from the end of 1700 ( the year in which Dryden died ) to the end of the ...
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... leave it until it was revived , with a personal note and renewed ability , under the pens of Goldsmith and Johnson . In the first years of Queen Anne , a hush seems to have fallen upon the poets ; and , save for a rumbling epic or so by ...
... leave it until it was revived , with a personal note and renewed ability , under the pens of Goldsmith and Johnson . In the first years of Queen Anne , a hush seems to have fallen upon the poets ; and , save for a rumbling epic or so by ...
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... leave his song of Paradise until the reign of roisterers succeeded the reign of saints . But the Revolution of 1688 was marked by no proscription , and , in England at least , was unstained by civil war . There were no fines nor ...
... leave his song of Paradise until the reign of roisterers succeeded the reign of saints . But the Revolution of 1688 was marked by no proscription , and , in England at least , was unstained by civil war . There were no fines nor ...
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... leave our literature more to its own native and insular develop- ment , to throw poets like Pope more exclu- sively upon Spenser and Cowley and Dryden for models , and to foster the development of the simple idiomatic prose of Defoe and ...
... leave our literature more to its own native and insular develop- ment , to throw poets like Pope more exclu- sively upon Spenser and Cowley and Dryden for models , and to foster the development of the simple idiomatic prose of Defoe and ...
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... leave of you as to this world : I look upon my self as a dying man . God requite your kindnesse expressed any ways toward me a hundred - fold , blesse you with a confluence of all good things in this world , and eternall life and ...
... leave of you as to this world : I look upon my self as a dying man . God requite your kindnesse expressed any ways toward me a hundred - fold , blesse you with a confluence of all good things in this world , and eternall life and ...
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