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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... later tracts . Defoe's evolution as a Novelist . Robinson Crusoe and its sequel . Miscellaneous later writings . Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell . A Journal of the Plague Year . Captain Singleton . Moll Flanders . Colonel ...
... later tracts . Defoe's evolution as a Novelist . Robinson Crusoe and its sequel . Miscellaneous later writings . Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell . A Journal of the Plague Year . Captain Singleton . Moll Flanders . Colonel ...
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... Later savage Satirical Verse : The Legion Club . Swift On the Death of Dr Swift . The Journal to Stella . Character of Swift's life and work . Swift a Master of Style and of Satire . What he lacks . 91 CHAPTER V ARBUTHNOT AND LESSER ...
... Later savage Satirical Verse : The Legion Club . Swift On the Death of Dr Swift . The Journal to Stella . Character of Swift's life and work . Swift a Master of Style and of Satire . What he lacks . 91 CHAPTER V ARBUTHNOT AND LESSER ...
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... Later , he supported James and the Roman Catholics . If we may trust Defoe , there is no doubt that Care's early death was brought on by bad habits . He is chiefly important to us because it was from him that Defoe borrowed the general ...
... Later , he supported James and the Roman Catholics . If we may trust Defoe , there is no doubt that Care's early death was brought on by bad habits . He is chiefly important to us because it was from him that Defoe borrowed the general ...
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... later , changed his politics . These and The Post Man , as well as the printed newsletter of Ichabod Dawks and the written newsletter of John Dyer , notorious for his partisan mendacity , were primarily disseminators of news . They were ...
... later , changed his politics . These and The Post Man , as well as the printed newsletter of Ichabod Dawks and the written newsletter of John Dyer , notorious for his partisan mendacity , were primarily disseminators of news . They were ...
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... later . As a matter of fact , this period of his life is so dark that positive conclusions of any kind are rash . It would seem , however , that he suffered unavoidable losses through the war with France , that he was involved in too ...
... later . As a matter of fact , this period of his life is so dark that positive conclusions of any kind are rash . It would seem , however , that he suffered unavoidable losses through the war with France , that he was involved in too ...
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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.