English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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... died in 1718 and was buried in Westminster Abbey . A political difference with Addison and other causes ( see the account of Addison ) separated the friends near the end of Addison's life . Steele , writing as in the character of a ...
... died in 1718 and was buried in Westminster Abbey . A political difference with Addison and other causes ( see the account of Addison ) separated the friends near the end of Addison's life . Steele , writing as in the character of a ...
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... died , his widow married Piozzi , a worthy Italian musician , but a Catholic . This caused a quarrel with John- son , and the rest of his life they were estranged . When Johnson died , Mrs. Piozzi published a book of anecdotes about him ...
... died , his widow married Piozzi , a worthy Italian musician , but a Catholic . This caused a quarrel with John- son , and the rest of his life they were estranged . When Johnson died , Mrs. Piozzi published a book of anecdotes about him ...
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... died , probably by his own hand . She was a hysterical , uncontrolled woman , who petted Byron half the time and abused him the other half . She would even taunt him about his misshapen foot , which made him " hop like a bird ...
... died , probably by his own hand . She was a hysterical , uncontrolled woman , who petted Byron half the time and abused him the other half . She would even taunt him about his misshapen foot , which made him " hop like a bird ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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