Studies in American LiteratureMacmillan, 1912 - 387 pages |
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... LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Epic Verse Lyric Verse . The Drama • History and Biography . Fiction . Exposition Oratory · PART TWO PAGE I • • 3 16 31 75 80 85 0055 38 3 58 59 64 67 67 PERIOD OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER III ...
... LATER EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . Epic Verse Lyric Verse . The Drama • History and Biography . Fiction . Exposition Oratory · PART TWO PAGE I • • 3 16 31 75 80 85 0055 38 3 58 59 64 67 67 PERIOD OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY CHAPTER III ...
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... later in development than Verse ? What is Narration , and what are its three chief divisions ? What is Exposition ? What are the chief forms of Oratory ? PART ONE ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOP- MENT 1607-1800 VIRGINIA UNTVN 28 Introduction.
... later in development than Verse ? What is Narration , and what are its three chief divisions ? What is Exposition ? What are the chief forms of Oratory ? PART ONE ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOP- MENT 1607-1800 VIRGINIA UNTVN 28 Introduction.
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... later times ; and there were some efforts at verse writing which make an interesting link between the English poetry of the seventeenth cen- tury and the work of American poets in later days . The earliest successful settlement in ...
... later times ; and there were some efforts at verse writing which make an interesting link between the English poetry of the seventeenth cen- tury and the work of American poets in later days . The earliest successful settlement in ...
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... later colonial period should be mentioned the " History of Vir- ginia , " by Robert Beverly , London , 1705 ; a little book called " Present State of Virginia and the Col- lege , " 1727 , by James Blair , founder of William and Mary ...
... later colonial period should be mentioned the " History of Vir- ginia , " by Robert Beverly , London , 1705 ; a little book called " Present State of Virginia and the Col- lege , " 1727 , by James Blair , founder of William and Mary ...
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... later years he became convinced that the whole thing was a delu- sion , and relieved his troubled conscience by a formal confession which was read by the minister in church Increase Mather , 1639-1723 . " Illustrious Provi- dences ...
... later years he became convinced that the whole thing was a delu- sion , and relieved his troubled conscience by a formal confession which was read by the minister in church Increase Mather , 1639-1723 . " Illustrious Provi- dences ...
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