Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... matter - of - fact people , inas- much as to name but one very intelligible drawback - they involve the assignment to the Eighteenth Century of events which took place before that century begins in the calendar . Furthermore , they ...
... matter - of - fact people , inas- much as to name but one very intelligible drawback - they involve the assignment to the Eighteenth Century of events which took place before that century begins in the calendar . Furthermore , they ...
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... matter and manner of English Literature is admitted even by those who find its cause uncertain and its course obscure . Of this change , in the last decades of the seventeenth century , Dryden is allowed to have been the chief exponent ...
... matter and manner of English Literature is admitted even by those who find its cause uncertain and its course obscure . Of this change , in the last decades of the seventeenth century , Dryden is allowed to have been the chief exponent ...
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... matter of plot the Vicar of Wakefield can scarcely be said to be constructed at all . Neither Gold- smith nor Johnson , therefore , any more than Sterne or Smollett , contributed greatly to the evolution of the Novel - form ; and in ...
... matter of plot the Vicar of Wakefield can scarcely be said to be constructed at all . Neither Gold- smith nor Johnson , therefore , any more than Sterne or Smollett , contributed greatly to the evolution of the Novel - form ; and in ...
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... matter , none deserves a record until we reach the Rambler and Idler of Johnson . But even the Rambler and Idler , vigorous and weighty as is their writer's style , follow the Queen Anne model ' as a pack horse would do a hunter ' - to ...
... matter , none deserves a record until we reach the Rambler and Idler of Johnson . But even the Rambler and Idler , vigorous and weighty as is their writer's style , follow the Queen Anne model ' as a pack horse would do a hunter ' - to ...
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... matter increase upon his hands , and was gradu- ally led into other fields of investigation . In the first book of his Essay Locke treats of innate ideas . He denies altogether the doctrine of innate ideas or conscious principles in the ...
... matter increase upon his hands , and was gradu- ally led into other fields of investigation . In the first book of his Essay Locke treats of innate ideas . He denies altogether the doctrine of innate ideas or conscious principles in the ...
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