Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... side only , and excusing its exiguity ( or lack of advertisements ) by a praiseworthy desire to save the Publick at ... sides . ' The full title was A Review of the Affairs of France ; but it was , in reality , a history of the domestic ...
... side only , and excusing its exiguity ( or lack of advertisements ) by a praiseworthy desire to save the Publick at ... sides . ' The full title was A Review of the Affairs of France ; but it was , in reality , a history of the domestic ...
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... Side as the Enemy's . ' Whether this passage , with its distinction of phrasing and its delicate irony , revealed to any of its readers the fact that a new force had arisen in English Literature , is not recorded . But its length as an ...
... Side as the Enemy's . ' Whether this passage , with its distinction of phrasing and its delicate irony , revealed to any of its readers the fact that a new force had arisen in English Literature , is not recorded . But its length as an ...
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... side by side with it , other influences were gathering strength and volume . Slowly and almost imperceptibly at first , men were be- ginning to discard the gradus - epithet and the formal phrase , to substitute blank verse for the ...
... side by side with it , other influences were gathering strength and volume . Slowly and almost imperceptibly at first , men were be- ginning to discard the gradus - epithet and the formal phrase , to substitute blank verse for the ...
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... side than on the literary , and one can discern in it the progress of that movement which had been begun five - and - twenty years before by the for- mation of the Royal Society - not only in the work of men like Ray , the naturalist ...
... side than on the literary , and one can discern in it the progress of that movement which had been begun five - and - twenty years before by the for- mation of the Royal Society - not only in the work of men like Ray , the naturalist ...
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... side civility is all that belongs . I received the three books you sent me . That which the author sent me deserves my acknowledgment more ways than one ; and I must beg you to return it . His demonstrations are so plain , that if this ...
... side civility is all that belongs . I received the three books you sent me . That which the author sent me deserves my acknowledgment more ways than one ; and I must beg you to return it . His demonstrations are so plain , that if this ...
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