Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... present insuper- able objections to 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 ...
... present insuper- able objections to 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 ...
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... present , we may 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 ...
... present , we may 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 ...
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... Present State of Polite Learning in Europe , he is found condemning blank verse as a ' dis- agreeable instance of pedantry , ' and as a measure which ' nothing but the greatest sub- limity of subject can render pleasing . ' In the ...
... Present State of Polite Learning in Europe , he is found condemning blank verse as a ' dis- agreeable instance of pedantry , ' and as a measure which ' nothing but the greatest sub- limity of subject can render pleasing . ' In the ...
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... present King William ; to make good his title in the consent of the people , which , being the only one of all lawful governments , he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom ; and to justify to the world the people of ...
... present King William ; to make good his title in the consent of the people , which , being the only one of all lawful governments , he has more fully and clearly than any prince in Christendom ; and to justify to the world the people of ...
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... present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind , or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ...
... present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind , or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ...
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