English Literature

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child’s, a ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) "Madam" (speaking to his cultivated hostess at table), "talk no more nonse ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) though we marvel at the big words, the carefully balanced sentences, the c ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) Staffordshire, in 1709. He was the son of a small bookseller, a poor man, ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) dreary weather, when it was too cold to sleep, without food or shelter. Bu ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) adversary at any cost; to knock him down by arguments, or, when these fail ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) flattered their patrons since the days of Elizabeth; though he afterwards ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) nary figure,–a shallow little Scotch barrister, who trots about like a dog ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) There is the gigantic body, the huge face seamed with the scars of disease ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) He seemed pleased to talk of natural philosophy. "That woodcocks," said he ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) to write the wonder down. It is an astonishing spectacle; one does not kno ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) foe and Fielding, who introduced a new type of literature. The romantic po ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) ful, brought him political as well as literary recognition, and several sm ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) and he warned England of the disaster which must follow her persistence in ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) the frightful victories of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Burke’s best known work ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) literature, to delight the reader and to suggest ideas, but stud- ies in r ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) all history and all literature for his illustrations. His wealth of imager ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) the first in our language to be written on scientific principles, and with ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) cise; he read enormously, sifted his facts out of multitudes of books and ...

CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800) THE REVIVAL OF ROMANTIC POETRY The old order changeth, yielding place to n ...