Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... memory works very differ- ently . It will be easier to show this if we say something of Boswell first . The nature of Boswell's memory has been made the subject of a brilliant investigation by Geoffrey Scott , un- fortunately in a work ...
... memory works very differ- ently . It will be easier to show this if we say something of Boswell first . The nature of Boswell's memory has been made the subject of a brilliant investigation by Geoffrey Scott , un- fortunately in a work ...
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... memory , on the con- trary , was an object of general astonishment from the time he was six years old . Like most memories which history chooses to distinguish as prodigious , his was essentially verbal and liter- ary . He never ...
... memory , on the con- trary , was an object of general astonishment from the time he was six years old . Like most memories which history chooses to distinguish as prodigious , his was essentially verbal and liter- ary . He never ...
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... memory ' which the Oxford Dictionary defines as ' a system of mnemonic devices ' , and illustrates from Hoyle ( 1747 ) : A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist ... To which is added , An Artificial Memory : Or , An easy Method of ...
... memory ' which the Oxford Dictionary defines as ' a system of mnemonic devices ' , and illustrates from Hoyle ( 1747 ) : A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist ... To which is added , An Artificial Memory : Or , An easy Method of ...
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THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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