Introduction to English Literature, From Chaucer to TennysonJ.F. Shaw, 1860 - 234 pages |
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... Horace Walpole , covering more than half a century , filled with political and private gossip , and sparkling with the wit of an acute man of the world , in the midst of the world's busiest society - and the letters of Cowper , partly ...
... Horace Walpole , covering more than half a century , filled with political and private gossip , and sparkling with the wit of an acute man of the world , in the midst of the world's busiest society - and the letters of Cowper , partly ...
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... Horace Walpole , who tells of one of the family pictures of the De Levis , a French family that prided itself on its great antiquity ; it was a picture of an antediluvian scene , in which Noah was represented going into the ark with a ...
... Horace Walpole , who tells of one of the family pictures of the De Levis , a French family that prided itself on its great antiquity ; it was a picture of an antediluvian scene , in which Noah was represented going into the ark with a ...
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... HORACE WALPOLE - SWIFT AND GRAY'S - COWPER'S - SCOTT'S - BYRON'S - SOUTHEY'S , AND LAMB'S LETTERS OF DEDICATION - LAMB'S TO HIS SISTER . IN devoting lecture to what I have entitled " The Literature of Letter - Writing , " I had less ...
... HORACE WALPOLE - SWIFT AND GRAY'S - COWPER'S - SCOTT'S - BYRON'S - SOUTHEY'S , AND LAMB'S LETTERS OF DEDICATION - LAMB'S TO HIS SISTER . IN devoting lecture to what I have entitled " The Literature of Letter - Writing , " I had less ...
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... Horace Walpole's remark that " nothing gives so just an idea of an age as genuine letters ; nay , history waits for its last seal from them . " It is in another letter from John Adams to John Jay that there occurs a character of George ...
... Horace Walpole's remark that " nothing gives so just an idea of an age as genuine letters ; nay , history waits for its last seal from them . " It is in another letter from John Adams to John Jay that there occurs a character of George ...
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... Horace Walpole , who said , " The letters of Henry the Sixth's reign are come out , and to me make all other letters not worth reading . I have gone through above one volume , and cannot bear to be writing when I am so eager to be ...
... Horace Walpole , who said , " The letters of Henry the Sixth's reign are come out , and to me make all other letters not worth reading . I have gone through above one volume , and cannot bear to be writing when I am so eager to be ...
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