Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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Page 37
... once or twice , and once ' M. ' , which Swift did not write . But these small admissions can hardly be accounted to Hawkesworth for right- eousness . In letter after letter the little language is , to all intents and purposes , passed ...
... once or twice , and once ' M. ' , which Swift did not write . But these small admissions can hardly be accounted to Hawkesworth for right- eousness . In letter after letter the little language is , to all intents and purposes , passed ...
Page 88
... once had been despised face - painting , might crown their nation with that honourable distinction . But their achievement was not the outcome of the art exemplified by Richardson , Hogarth , and Hudson , which looked back to Lely and ...
... once had been despised face - painting , might crown their nation with that honourable distinction . But their achievement was not the outcome of the art exemplified by Richardson , Hogarth , and Hudson , which looked back to Lely and ...
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... once observable how the ' minor poems ' of Milton continued to be- witch the reader as they had for long done . Johnson being by this time out of reach , Knox could even represent the Sonnets . The descriptions in Spenser are next ...
... once observable how the ' minor poems ' of Milton continued to be- witch the reader as they had for long done . Johnson being by this time out of reach , Knox could even represent the Sonnets . The descriptions in Spenser are next ...
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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