This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Essay on Addison is a classic, and Thackeray's portraits of both Addison and Steele in his English Humourists are most vivacious studies of these men and their age. Chapters upon the so-called newspapers of that day, and upon the coffee-houses and clubs, will be found in Courthope's Life of Addison, in English ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...Essay on Addison is a classic, and Thackeray's portraits of both Addison and Steele in his English Humourists are most vivacious studies of these men and their age. Chapters upon the so-called newspapers of that day, and upon the coffee-houses and clubs, will be found in Courthope's Life of Addison, in English Men of Letters Series, and in W. C. Sydney's England and the English in the Eighteenth Century (Macmillan). Johnson's Addison, in his Lives of the Poets, is interesting; and the brief essay introducing the volume of selections from Addison, edited by J. R. Green (Macmillan), is particularly valuable. Upon the hie of Steele the biography by G. A. Aitken is authority. Austin Dobson's Life of Steele, in the English Worthies Series, is JONATHAN SWIFT 237 a good, brief biography. A careful reading of Thackeray's great novel, Henry Esmond, will prove as profitable as it will be entertaining; no more vivid picture of this period in English history has ever been produced. Jonathan Swift is the foremost English satirist in prose. It is no easy matter to arrive at a just interpretation of this man's character, swiit, One of the keenest of wits, he was for the first thirty years of the eighteenth century the intellectual master of his age. Although his remarkable talents received scant recognition from those in power, his influence in moulding public opinion was extraordinary; and for a brief period he appears a conspicuous figure among the party leaders whose measures he supported by the sharpness and vigor of his pen. Imperious, caustic, at times brutal, in the strenuous expression of his views, he domineered over friends and foes. In the height of his success in London he once sent the Lord Treasurer into the House of Commons to call out the...
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback 1902 Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No Jacket. Illustrations, charts, diagrams and maps. Remarkably well-preserved book in gilt-blocked dark olive-green full cloth, gilt title to front, title on spine rubbed, hard to see; quite clean with light wear to corner tips and spine head and heel. Sewn binding is tight and solid, square. Hinges intact. Pages only faintly toned, completely clean and unmarked, no creases. English literature, criticism and interpretation, from the Anglo-Saxon Period up through the 19th century's Romantic Period; the great essayists Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin; the maturity of the novel--Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot; the Victorian Poets Browning and Tennyson. 483 pages indexed. 7.5 x 5 inches. 1902, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston.
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