The Cambridge History of English Literature: From Steele and Addison to Pope and SwiftSir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1912 |
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... England . Attacks upon it and Replies . The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale . Burnet in Exile . Beginnings of Memoirs ; and various Political Pamphlets . A Memorial for the Electress Sophia . The History of My Own Time and its ...
... England . Attacks upon it and Replies . The Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale . Burnet in Exile . Beginnings of Memoirs ; and various Political Pamphlets . A Memorial for the Electress Sophia . The History of My Own Time and its ...
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... England . Charles Cotton's , Monsey's and John Phillips's Travesties of Vergil , Scudamore's of Homer and Alexander Radcliffe's of Ovid . Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse . Ned Ward's Hudibras Redivivus , Vulgus Britannicus and London Spy ...
... England . Charles Cotton's , Monsey's and John Phillips's Travesties of Vergil , Scudamore's of Homer and Alexander Radcliffe's of Ovid . Hudibras and Hudibrastic Verse . Ned Ward's Hudibras Redivivus , Vulgus Britannicus and London Spy ...
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... England in the Earlier Half of the Eighteenth Century . Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century . ' Children of Light ' in Holland . The ' Behmenites ' and the Founders of the Society of Friends . Life and Writings of William Law . Law's ...
... England in the Earlier Half of the Eighteenth Century . Mysticism in the Seventeenth Century . ' Children of Light ' in Holland . The ' Behmenites ' and the Founders of the Society of Friends . Life and Writings of William Law . Law's ...
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... England after his marriage , it seems plausible to hold that he may have been sent to Spain as an apprentice in the commission business and have taken the oppor- tunity , when returning , to see more of Europe . His ' wander - years ...
... England after his marriage , it seems plausible to hold that he may have been sent to Spain as an apprentice in the commission business and have taken the oppor- tunity , when returning , to see more of Europe . His ' wander - years ...
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... England , which is worthy of Somers ; but we get a better idea of the character of Defoe himself through his attitude in the affair of the Kentish petitioners . There is something of the demagogue in the famous Legion's Address , which ...
... England , which is worthy of Somers ; but we get a better idea of the character of Defoe himself through his attitude in the affair of the Kentish petitioners . There is something of the demagogue in the famous Legion's Address , which ...
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Addison admirable afterwards Alexander Pope appeared Arbuthnot Bentley bishop Boehme Bolingbroke Burnet called Cambridge chap character Charles Christian church coffeehouses controversy criticism death Defoe Defoe's deists Divine Dryden Dublin Dunciad earl edition eighteenth century England English Epistle Essay French friends George Harley History Horace Hudibras humour Iliad interest Ireland Jacobite John John Bull Jonathan Swift Journal King Lady later Latin Law's learning letters literary literature living London Lord Matthew Prior Memoirs mind Miscellany modern moral mystical nature Ned Ward never original Oxford pamphlets papers philosophical pindarics poem poet poetry political Pope Pope's printed Prior prose published queen readers reason reign religion Remarks Rptd Samuel Clarke satire says Scotland seems spirit Steele style Swift Tatler things Thomas thought Tom Brown tory tracts translation treatise verse volume Walpole whig William William Law writings written wrote
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Página 285 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 85 - But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
Página 302 - ... the nearer we search into human nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the moral virtues are the political offspring which flattery begot upon pride.
Página 172 - Can I forget the dismal night, that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave ? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings...
Página 123 - He gave the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad: And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much: That kingdom he hath left his debtor, I wish it soon may have a better.
Página 102 - ... instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax ; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Página 103 - I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Página 313 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
Página 120 - STELLA this day is thirty-four, (We sha'n't dispute a year or more :) However, Stella, be not troubled, Although thy size and years are doubled Since first I saw thee at sixteen, The brightest virgin on the green ; So little is thy form declined ; Made up so largely in thy mind.