Essays and Reviews, Volume 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851 - American literature |
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... NEAL'S HISTORY OF THE PURITANS , WORDSWORTH , BYRON , ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY , SHELLEY . SCOTT . COLERIDGE . SOUTHEY . PAGE 9 31 81 103 116 138 172 208 222 267 299 MOORE . CAMPBELL . TENNYSON . PROCTOR . KEATS .
... NEAL'S HISTORY OF THE PURITANS , WORDSWORTH , BYRON , ENGLISH POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY , SHELLEY . SCOTT . COLERIDGE . SOUTHEY . PAGE 9 31 81 103 116 138 172 208 222 267 299 MOORE . CAMPBELL . TENNYSON . PROCTOR . KEATS .
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... English language , and the scholar who has mastered its refinements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made ...
... English language , and the scholar who has mastered its refinements , seem equally sensible to the charm of his diction . No matter how unpromising the subject on which he writes may appear to the common eye , in his hands it is made ...
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... English revolution , he bursts out in a strain of indignant rebuke of the succeed- ing social and political enormities which paved the way to the second . " Then came those days never to be mentioned without a blush -the days of ...
... English revolution , he bursts out in a strain of indignant rebuke of the succeed- ing social and political enormities which paved the way to the second . " Then came those days never to be mentioned without a blush -the days of ...
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... English writers in his view of the revolution which dethroned Charles I .; and points out the inconsistencies of that class of religionists and politicians who , " on the fifth of November , thank God for wonderfully conducting his ...
... English writers in his view of the revolution which dethroned Charles I .; and points out the inconsistencies of that class of religionists and politicians who , " on the fifth of November , thank God for wonderfully conducting his ...
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... English poets and dramatists , from Chaucer to Anstey , which contains more than two hundred and twenty names . This includes many whose very names are unknown to the general reader , and many who have not written as well as the worst ...
... English poets and dramatists , from Chaucer to Anstey , which contains more than two hundred and twenty names . This includes many whose very names are unknown to the general reader , and many who have not written as well as the worst ...
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