A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... method ; assent to a proposition had to be suspended until the evidence was examined . They shunned purely a priori reasoning , and preached the necessity of having a hesitant or " open " mind . Frequently this attitude approached ...
... method ; assent to a proposition had to be suspended until the evidence was examined . They shunned purely a priori reasoning , and preached the necessity of having a hesitant or " open " mind . Frequently this attitude approached ...
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... method for poetry that has appealed to disciples ( some of them , to be sure , only metrical imitators ) as different as Pope , Gray , Churchill , Byron , Keats , and T. S. Eliot ; a method that for two generations after his death ...
... method for poetry that has appealed to disciples ( some of them , to be sure , only metrical imitators ) as different as Pope , Gray , Churchill , Byron , Keats , and T. S. Eliot ; a method that for two generations after his death ...
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... method . In 1677 after some years of delay he published his Memoirs of the His Lives and Actions of James and William , Dukes of Hamilton . This work , Histories really a continuation 19 of John Spotiswood's History of the Church of ...
... method . In 1677 after some years of delay he published his Memoirs of the His Lives and Actions of James and William , Dukes of Hamilton . This work , Histories really a continuation 19 of John Spotiswood's History of the Church of ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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