Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 1J. B. Lippincott, 1910 - American literature |
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... published his Lays or begun his History . The reputation Carlyle had made by the French Revolution was but five years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately published , and Dickens had issued only a very few of the long series of his ...
... published his Lays or begun his History . The reputation Carlyle had made by the French Revolution was but five years old , Thackeray's first volume was lately published , and Dickens had issued only a very few of the long series of his ...
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... published by the Clarendon Press in 1899-1900 . From this excellent edition , the Speculum or Mirour is now known to ... publish his Political Justice at a prohibitive price - the desire to escape any accusation of inflaming popular ...
... published by the Clarendon Press in 1899-1900 . From this excellent edition , the Speculum or Mirour is now known to ... publish his Political Justice at a prohibitive price - the desire to escape any accusation of inflaming popular ...
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... publish it . But its main interest can hardly be called literary . The Paston Letters . To offer a similar judgment ... published by Sir John Fenn in 1787 , and aroused immediate interest . They present , indeed , the most vivid picture ...
... publish it . But its main interest can hardly be called literary . The Paston Letters . To offer a similar judgment ... published by Sir John Fenn in 1787 , and aroused immediate interest . They present , indeed , the most vivid picture ...
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... published in a continuation of Harding's Chronicle in 1543 : even some of Lord Berners ' translations had to wait ... publish their Latin annals . Travel was represented by Mandeville , of which it seems probable that Caxton himself had ...
... published in a continuation of Harding's Chronicle in 1543 : even some of Lord Berners ' translations had to wait ... publish their Latin annals . Travel was represented by Mandeville , of which it seems probable that Caxton himself had ...
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... published without his name in 1506. An excellent prose translation , The famous cronycle of the warre which the romayns had agaynst Jugurth , usurper of the kyngdome of Numidy , from ' the renowmed romayn Salust , ' was published by ...
... published without his name in 1506. An excellent prose translation , The famous cronycle of the warre which the romayns had agaynst Jugurth , usurper of the kyngdome of Numidy , from ' the renowmed romayn Salust , ' was published by ...
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