Cyclopaedia of English Literature: Sixth period from 1727-1780. Poets ; Scottish poets ; tragic dramatists ; Comic dramatists ; Periodical essayists ; Novelists ; Historians ; Metaphysical writers ; Writers in divinity ; Miscellaneous writersRobert Chambers Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1847 - Authors, English |
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... rise of the species of fiction called the novel ( includ- ing the delineation of character , and not merely in- cidents ) , the age was not by any means marked by such striking features of originality or vigour as some of the preceding ...
... rise of the species of fiction called the novel ( includ- ing the delineation of character , and not merely in- cidents ) , the age was not by any means marked by such striking features of originality or vigour as some of the preceding ...
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... rise : Then sovereign Reason from her empire flies : That ruler once deposed , wisdom and wit , To noise and folly ... rising galls ferment ; And burn with faction , hate , and vengeful ire , For rapine , blood , and devastation dire ...
... rise : Then sovereign Reason from her empire flies : That ruler once deposed , wisdom and wit , To noise and folly ... rising galls ferment ; And burn with faction , hate , and vengeful ire , For rapine , blood , and devastation dire ...
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... rise , Grin horrible , and , obstinately sullen , Pass and repass , hushed as the foot of night . Again the screech - owl shrieks - ungracious sound ! I'll hear no more ; it makes one's blood run chill . With tenderness equal to his ...
... rise , Grin horrible , and , obstinately sullen , Pass and repass , hushed as the foot of night . Again the screech - owl shrieks - ungracious sound ! I'll hear no more ; it makes one's blood run chill . With tenderness equal to his ...
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... rise and set , and set and rise : Earth takes the example . See , the Summer gay , With her green chaplet and ambrosial flowers , Droops into pallid Autumn : Winter gray , Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm , Blows Autumn and ...
... rise and set , and set and rise : Earth takes the example . See , the Summer gay , With her green chaplet and ambrosial flowers , Droops into pallid Autumn : Winter gray , Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm , Blows Autumn and ...
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... rising ball ; Oh Thou ! whose word from solid darkness struck That spark , the sun , strike wisdom from my soul ; My ... rise in proof : While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread , What though my soul fantastic measures trod O'er ...
... rising ball ; Oh Thou ! whose word from solid darkness struck That spark , the sun , strike wisdom from my soul ; My ... rise in proof : While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread , What though my soul fantastic measures trod O'er ...
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