Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... speak more exactly - of the Eighteenth Century in English Litera- ture , the historian is con- fronted at the outset by a difficulty of definition . What is meant by the Eighteenth Century in English Literature ? The natural ( though ...
... speak more exactly - of the Eighteenth Century in English Litera- ture , the historian is con- fronted at the outset by a difficulty of definition . What is meant by the Eighteenth Century in English Literature ? The natural ( though ...
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... speak more precisely the Art Poétique of Boileau , with this difference , that while Horace and the French critic kept their precepts for their maturity , their English imitator , when he pro- ceeded a metrical legislator , was only ...
... speak more precisely the Art Poétique of Boileau , with this difference , that while Horace and the French critic kept their precepts for their maturity , their English imitator , when he pro- ceeded a metrical legislator , was only ...
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... Speaking English Correctly . There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman , than not to express himself well ... speak clearly and per- suasively in any business ? This I think not to be so much their fault , as the fault of ...
... Speaking English Correctly . There can scarce be a greater defect in a gentleman , than not to express himself well ... speak clearly and per- suasively in any business ? This I think not to be so much their fault , as the fault of ...
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... speak correctly gives a grace , and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say : and since it is English that an English gentleman will have con- stant use of , that is the language he should chiefly culti- vate , and wherein ...
... speak correctly gives a grace , and gains a favourable attention to what one has to say : and since it is English that an English gentleman will have con- stant use of , that is the language he should chiefly culti- vate , and wherein ...
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... speak , would express their brutality in such language as this . To argue the matter more at large . The Smuttiness is a fault in behaviour as well as in religion . ' Tis a very coarse diversion , the entertainment of those who are ...
... speak , would express their brutality in such language as this . To argue the matter more at large . The Smuttiness is a fault in behaviour as well as in religion . ' Tis a very coarse diversion , the entertainment of those who are ...
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