A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... Dunciad ; Conclusion 66 · Shaftesbury : - Characteristics ; Hamlet Mandeville : Fable of the Bees ; Gin 66 66 - - 66 66 66 66 • • Clothes ; Dress Bolingbroke : — Letter to Windham ; Character of Harley 66 66 The Pretender Tickell ...
... Dunciad ; Conclusion 66 · Shaftesbury : - Characteristics ; Hamlet Mandeville : Fable of the Bees ; Gin 66 66 - - 66 66 66 66 • • Clothes ; Dress Bolingbroke : — Letter to Windham ; Character of Harley 66 66 The Pretender Tickell ...
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... Dunciad in 1728 ; his Essay on Man in 1733 and 1734 ; his Imitations of Horace , various other satirical pieces , the Prologue and Epilogue to the Satires , his four epistles styled Moral Essays , and his modernized version of Donne's ...
... Dunciad in 1728 ; his Essay on Man in 1733 and 1734 ; his Imitations of Horace , various other satirical pieces , the Prologue and Epilogue to the Satires , his four epistles styled Moral Essays , and his modernized version of Donne's ...
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... Dunciad ? That we have nothing in the same style in the lan- guage to be set beside or weighed against any one of these per- formances will probably be admitted by all ; and , if we could say no more , this would be to assign to Pope a ...
... Dunciad ? That we have nothing in the same style in the lan- guage to be set beside or weighed against any one of these per- formances will probably be admitted by all ; and , if we could say no more , this would be to assign to Pope a ...
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... Dunciad : - " Oh , " cried the goddess , 1 for some pedant reign . Some gentle James to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne , Give law to words , or war with words alone ; Senates and courts with Greek and ...
... Dunciad : - " Oh , " cried the goddess , 1 for some pedant reign . Some gentle James to bless the land again ; To stick the doctor's chair into the throne , Give law to words , or war with words alone ; Senates and courts with Greek and ...
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... Dunciad : But far o'er all , sonorous Blackmore's strain : Walls , steeples , skies , bray back to him again . In Tot'nam fields the brethren , with amaze , Prick all their ears up , and forget to graze ; Long Chancery - lane retentive ...
... Dunciad : But far o'er all , sonorous Blackmore's strain : Walls , steeples , skies , bray back to him again . In Tot'nam fields the brethren , with amaze , Prick all their ears up , and forget to graze ; Long Chancery - lane retentive ...
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