Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... prose or a version in prose , more or less complete and organized . In another conversation , later than 1730 , he told Spence , ' I wrote the Essay on Criticism fast ; for I had digested all the matter , in prose , before I began upon ...
... prose or a version in prose , more or less complete and organized . In another conversation , later than 1730 , he told Spence , ' I wrote the Essay on Criticism fast ; for I had digested all the matter , in prose , before I began upon ...
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... PROSE JAMES SUTHERLAND Mississippi ( or so they used to tell us at school ) , after Tflowing southwards for many hundreds of miles , is joined some distance above St. Louis by the Missouri ; and though the two great streams now roll on ...
... PROSE JAMES SUTHERLAND Mississippi ( or so they used to tell us at school ) , after Tflowing southwards for many hundreds of miles , is joined some distance above St. Louis by the Missouri ; and though the two great streams now roll on ...
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... prose because at this point it demands fact . ( The closing paragraphs of Newman's Apologia are of interest here ... prose writings of the eighteenth century , which Arnold praised with such filial admiration , were conceived and ...
... prose because at this point it demands fact . ( The closing paragraphs of Newman's Apologia are of interest here ... prose writings of the eighteenth century , which Arnold praised with such filial admiration , were conceived and ...
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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