A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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Page 763
... notable playwrights Dryden , Sedley , Etherege , Wycherley , Congreve , and Vanbrugh were men of fashion or courtiers ; and the less aristocratic writers , such as Otway and Mrs. Behn , were as crudely indecent as the courtiers . No ...
... notable playwrights Dryden , Sedley , Etherege , Wycherley , Congreve , and Vanbrugh were men of fashion or courtiers ; and the less aristocratic writers , such as Otway and Mrs. Behn , were as crudely indecent as the courtiers . No ...
Page 796
... notable in England after Sir Roger L'Estrange translated Five Love - Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier and Seven Portuguese Letters ( 1678-81 ) . In this vein English genius can show Mrs. Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and ...
... notable in England after Sir Roger L'Estrange translated Five Love - Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier and Seven Portuguese Letters ( 1678-81 ) . In this vein English genius can show Mrs. Aphra Behn's Love Letters between a Nobleman and ...
Page 1032
... notable for its charming and frequent uses of English landscape backgrounds . Graves has a pretty gift of ridicule ; he is neither too savage nor too absurd . There were also numberless novels of the loose biographical pattern , such as ...
... notable for its charming and frequent uses of English landscape backgrounds . Graves has a pretty gift of ridicule ; he is neither too savage nor too absurd . There were also numberless novels of the loose biographical pattern , such as ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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