Illustrated History of English Literature, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1954 For contents, see Author Catalog. |
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... Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , by Lemuel Gulliver , first a Surgeon , and then a Captain of ... Gulliver's Travels has become a worldwide best - seller during its two centuries cannot be esti- mated , since the ...
... Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World , by Lemuel Gulliver , first a Surgeon , and then a Captain of ... Gulliver's Travels has become a worldwide best - seller during its two centuries cannot be esti- mated , since the ...
Page 116
... Gulliver's Travels holds the field , for relatively few except students turn in adult life to Swift's own book . Gulliver's Travels appears to have started as one of the pro- posed contributions to the Scriblerus Club Memoirs , in which ...
... Gulliver's Travels holds the field , for relatively few except students turn in adult life to Swift's own book . Gulliver's Travels appears to have started as one of the pro- posed contributions to the Scriblerus Club Memoirs , in which ...
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... Gulliver's Travels is the greatest in the language ; it is also among the greatest works of imagination even when in children's editions Swift's major purpose is drained away . No moment in a child's reading life can surpass that in ...
... Gulliver's Travels is the greatest in the language ; it is also among the greatest works of imagination even when in children's editions Swift's major purpose is drained away . No moment in a child's reading life can surpass that in ...
Contents
EARLY STUART DRAMA I | 1 |
EARLY STUART VERSE AND PROSE | 19 |
MILTON AND BUNYAN | 47 |
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