Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... passages which could detract from the dignity of the great Dean of St. Patrick's , the intimate friend of Oxford and Bolingbroke , of the poets , wits , and people of quality who adorned the days of Queen Anne . The use of a nursery lan ...
... passages which could detract from the dignity of the great Dean of St. Patrick's , the intimate friend of Oxford and Bolingbroke , of the poets , wits , and people of quality who adorned the days of Queen Anne . The use of a nursery lan ...
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... passages which in the originals before him were written in the little language . When he spoke of the trouble occasioned ' in the revisal of these papers ' he was referring to the difficulty of rendering these passages into common ...
... passages which in the originals before him were written in the little language . When he spoke of the trouble occasioned ' in the revisal of these papers ' he was referring to the difficulty of rendering these passages into common ...
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... passages preceding and following . In another page ( fol . 11 ) we have the completed passages preceded by a transi- tional approach ( later discarded ) and followed immediately by the passage beginning with line 151- If meagre Gildon ...
... passages preceding and following . In another page ( fol . 11 ) we have the completed passages preceded by a transi- tional approach ( later discarded ) and followed immediately by the passage beginning with line 151- If meagre Gildon ...
Contents
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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