Anglo-Irish LiteratureLongmans, Green and CompanyLimited, 1926 - 301 pages |
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Page xiii
... contemporary authors is far inferior to their deserts ; the second , that , as A.E. says in his Foreword , the treatment of many authors is rather political than literary . In excuse , not justification , I can only plead- apart from ...
... contemporary authors is far inferior to their deserts ; the second , that , as A.E. says in his Foreword , the treatment of many authors is rather political than literary . In excuse , not justification , I can only plead- apart from ...
Page 49
... contemporary politics he aims when making his hero relate the wars between Lilliput and Blefusco , and the strife between Big and Little Endians , or describe for the King of Brobdingnag the ways of English statesmen . But towards the ...
... contemporary politics he aims when making his hero relate the wars between Lilliput and Blefusco , and the strife between Big and Little Endians , or describe for the King of Brobdingnag the ways of English statesmen . But towards the ...
Page 63
... contemporary London . To employ imaginary Orientals to satirise European foibles and vices was a favourite device of the time . Montes- quieu , D'Argens and Horace Walpole had all made use of it ; and Goldsmith , as we have seen , was ...
... contemporary London . To employ imaginary Orientals to satirise European foibles and vices was a favourite device of the time . Montes- quieu , D'Argens and Horace Walpole had all made use of it ; and Goldsmith , as we have seen , was ...
Page 72
... the dullest of readers . Of the purity of his writings 3Hugh Kelly , a contemporary writer of sentimental comedy , and a protégé of Garrick's . it will perhaps be sufficient to say that for a 72 ANGLO - IRISH LITERATURE.
... the dullest of readers . Of the purity of his writings 3Hugh Kelly , a contemporary writer of sentimental comedy , and a protégé of Garrick's . it will perhaps be sufficient to say that for a 72 ANGLO - IRISH LITERATURE.
Page 96
... contemporary observers , by intimate friends like William Windham and by indifferent critics like Fanny Burney . It is true that in a very short time from his election to Parliament he achieved a great name as a parliamentary swordsman ...
... contemporary observers , by intimate friends like William Windham and by indifferent critics like Fanny Burney . It is true that in a very short time from his election to Parliament he achieved a great name as a parliamentary swordsman ...
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