The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 - English literature |
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... English Literature in Columbia University , New York Beginnings of the English Newspaper . The Oxford , afterwards The London , Gazette . Roger L'Estrange . His activity as a pamphleteer before and after the Restoration . The Observator ...
... English Literature in Columbia University , New York Beginnings of the English Newspaper . The Oxford , afterwards The London , Gazette . Roger L'Estrange . His activity as a pamphleteer before and after the Restoration . The Observator ...
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... English knowledge of Spanish Literature PAGE 255 CHAPTER XI BERKELEY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY By W. R. SORLEY , Litt.D. , F.B.A. , Fellow of King's College , Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy English Thought in the Period ...
... English knowledge of Spanish Literature PAGE 255 CHAPTER XI BERKELEY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY By W. R. SORLEY , Litt.D. , F.B.A. , Fellow of King's College , Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy English Thought in the Period ...
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... English Studies : Sir Henry Spelman . Diplomatic : Thomas Madox . Heraldry . Ames's Typographical Antiquities . The Cottonian and the Harleian Libraries . Osborne and Oldys . Revival of the Society of Antiquaries . PAGE 341 CHAPTER XIV ...
... English Studies : Sir Henry Spelman . Diplomatic : Thomas Madox . Heraldry . Ames's Typographical Antiquities . The Cottonian and the Harleian Libraries . Osborne and Oldys . Revival of the Society of Antiquaries . PAGE 341 CHAPTER XIV ...
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... English newspaper , in a technical sense , was not quite fifty years old . There had been weekly Corantos , or pamphlets of foreign news , from 1622 to 1641 , and , throughout the period of the civil war and the commonwealth , there had ...
... English newspaper , in a technical sense , was not quite fifty years old . There had been weekly Corantos , or pamphlets of foreign news , from 1622 to 1641 , and , throughout the period of the civil war and the commonwealth , there had ...
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... English literature . Although he never ceased to be a journalist and pamphleteer , he became , for the last eleven years of his life , primarily a writer of books , and especially of fiction . The change has surprised many , and a word ...
... English literature . Although he never ceased to be a journalist and pamphleteer , he became , for the last eleven years of his life , primarily a writer of books , and especially of fiction . The change has surprised many , and a word ...
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Page 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Page 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Page 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Page 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Page 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Page 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Page 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Page 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Page 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.