Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... least he was at one with the best writers of his age . Without noticeably condescending to their public those authors of Queen Anne's day showed a willingness , not always to be found in the later decades of the century , to express ...
... least he was at one with the best writers of his age . Without noticeably condescending to their public those authors of Queen Anne's day showed a willingness , not always to be found in the later decades of the century , to express ...
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... least likely to be remembered against him on the Day of Judgment ' . Langhorne's sermons have at least the merit of being short . One of them is included in its entirety in a review in The Monthly in 1764 . In 1763 Charles Churchill had ...
... least likely to be remembered against him on the Day of Judgment ' . Langhorne's sermons have at least the merit of being short . One of them is included in its entirety in a review in The Monthly in 1764 . In 1763 Charles Churchill had ...
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... least lyrical in impulse and the least ballad - like in movement ; it is no doubt one of those referred to on the title - page as ' other Poems ' . We feel that it is rather shaped by the experience it records than imposes shape upon it ...
... least lyrical in impulse and the least ballad - like in movement ; it is no doubt one of those referred to on the title - page as ' other Poems ' . We feel that it is rather shaped by the experience it records than imposes shape upon it ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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