English LiteratureScott, Foresman, 1905 - 452 pages A textbook for English Literature covering the Old, Middle, and Modern English Periods. Also contains notes and chronology charts on both principal and minor authors. |
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Page 167
... ADDISON Treaty of Utrecht .. 1713 POPE George I .. .1714-1727 DEFOE Jacobite Rising .. 1715 South Sea Bubble .. 1720 Walpole , Prime Minister 1721-1742 George II ...... 1727-1760 Second Jacobite Rising ....... 1745 Arabian Nights , tr ...
... ADDISON Treaty of Utrecht .. 1713 POPE George I .. .1714-1727 DEFOE Jacobite Rising .. 1715 South Sea Bubble .. 1720 Walpole , Prime Minister 1721-1742 George II ...... 1727-1760 Second Jacobite Rising ....... 1745 Arabian Nights , tr ...
Page 170
... comment on Hamlet is extremely significant : " Now these old plays begin to disgust this refined century , since their majesties have been so long abroad . " Addison , and Pope . The two latter follow , 170 EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
... comment on Hamlet is extremely significant : " Now these old plays begin to disgust this refined century , since their majesties have been so long abroad . " Addison , and Pope . The two latter follow , 170 EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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Alphonso Gerald Newcomer. Addison , and Pope . The two latter follow , indeed , at the dis- tance of a full generation , yet the life of Swift , traced backward , overlaps that of Dryden by more than thirty , as the life of Defoe , who ...
Alphonso Gerald Newcomer. Addison , and Pope . The two latter follow , indeed , at the dis- tance of a full generation , yet the life of Swift , traced backward , overlaps that of Dryden by more than thirty , as the life of Defoe , who ...
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... Addison ( with whom , however , he retained friend- ship ) in the Whig Examiner , and he wrote a vigorous article , The Conduct of the Allies ( 1711 ) , against the continental war under Marlborough's generalship which the Whigs were ...
... Addison ( with whom , however , he retained friend- ship ) in the Whig Examiner , and he wrote a vigorous article , The Conduct of the Allies ( 1711 ) , against the continental war under Marlborough's generalship which the Whigs were ...
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