| Additional Resources |
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xv | |
| Preface |
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xvii | |
| Acknowledgments |
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xxiii | |
| About the Editors |
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xxix | |
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century |
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1980 | (1) |
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The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century at a Glance |
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1981 | (4) |
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1985 | (1) |
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Monarchs, Ministers, Empire |
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1986 | (5) |
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Money, Manners, and Theatrics |
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1991 | (19) |
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Color Plate 20 Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine |
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Color Plate 21 Queen Charlotte with Her Two Eldest Sons |
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Color Plate 22 Mrs. Abington as "Miss Prue" |
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Color Plate 23 Charles II as President of the Royal Society |
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Color Plate 24 A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery |
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Color Plate 25 An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump |
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Color Plate 26 The Beggar's Opera, Act 3, Scene 11 |
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Color Plate 27 Hogarth's Servants |
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Color Plate 28 Cottage Door with Children Playing |
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Faith and Knowledge, Thought and Feeling |
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1999 | (2) |
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Writers, Readers, Conversations |
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2001 | (7) |
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2008 | (1) |
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2009 | (1) |
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2010 | (29) |
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2010 | (1) |
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2011 | (1) |
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2011 | (2) |
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[ The Coronation of Charles II] |
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2013 | (2) |
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2015 | (6) |
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2021 | (4) |
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Pepys's Diary and Its Time |
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2025 | (2) |
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2027 | (4) |
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2031 | (1) |
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[ Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett] |
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2032 | (5) |
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2037 | (2) |
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Perspectives The Royal Society and the New Science |
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2039 | (145) |
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2040 | (3) |
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From The History of the Royal Society of London |
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2041 | (2) |
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Philosophical Transactions |
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2043 | (3) |
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From Philosophical Transactions |
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2043 | (3) |
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2046 | (12) |
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2047 | (3) |
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2050 | (3) |
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2053 | (1) |
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2053 | (1) |
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2054 | (4) |
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle |
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2058 | (16) |
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2059 | (1) |
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The Poetress's Hasty Resolution |
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2059 | (1) |
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2060 | (1) |
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An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book |
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2060 | (1) |
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2060 | (3) |
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From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life |
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2063 | (5) |
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Observations upon Experimental Philosophy |
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2068 | (1) |
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Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses |
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2068 | (2) |
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The Description of a New Blazing World |
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2070 | (1) |
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2070 | (1) |
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2071 | (1) |
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[ Empress, Duchess, Duke] |
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2072 | (1) |
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2073 | (1) |
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2074 | (51) |
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2074 | (3) |
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Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem |
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2077 | (25) |
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Absalom and Achitophel and Its Time (Web) |
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2102 | (6) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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2108 | (1) |
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew (Web) |
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2109 | (4) |
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Fables Ancient and Modern |
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2113 | (1) |
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2113 | (9) |
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2122 | (3) |
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2125 | (59) |
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2125 | (1) |
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2126 | (4) |
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To Lysander, on Some Verses He Writ |
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2130 | (1) |
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To Lysander at the Music-Meeting |
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2131 | (1) |
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A Letter to Mr. Creech at Oxford |
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2132 | (3) |
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To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman |
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2135 | (2) |
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2137 | (41) |
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2178 | (6) |
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Perspectives Coterie Writing |
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2184 | (126) |
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2184 | (1) |
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2184 | (1) |
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2185 | (1) |
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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea |
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2186 | (1) |
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2187 | (1) |
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Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia |
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2188 | (1) |
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2189 | (1) |
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A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger Farm in Hampshire |
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2190 | (2) |
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2192 | (1) |
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2192 | (2) |
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2194 | (1) |
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An Epistle to Artemisia. On Fame |
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2195 | (5) |
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2200 | (1) |
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The Epistle of Deborah Dough |
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2201 | (1) |
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John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester |
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2202 | (11) |
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2203 | (1) |
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2204 | (1) |
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Song ("Love a woman? You're an ass!") |
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2205 | (1) |
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2205 | (2) |
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2207 | (1) |
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A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind |
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2208 | (5) |
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2213 | (70) |
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2215 | (68) |
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2283 | (10) |
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From Some Reflections upon Marriage |
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2284 | (9) |
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2293 | (17) |
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A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal |
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2296 | (6) |
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A Journal of the Plague Year |
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2302 | (1) |
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2302 | (4) |
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2304 | (2) |
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[ Encounter with a Waterman] |
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2306 | (4) |
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Perspectives Reading Papers |
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2310 | (303) |
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2311 | (5) |
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From Mercurius Publicus [ Anniversary of the Regicide] |
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2311 | (1) |
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From The London Gazette [ The Fire of London] |
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2312 | (1) |
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From The Daily Courant No. 1 [ Editorial Policy] |
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2313 | (1) |
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From A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 4, No. 21 [ The New Union] |
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2314 | (2) |
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2316 | (12) |
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From Tatler No. 1 [ Introducing Mr. Bickerstaff] |
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2317 | (2) |
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From Spectator No. 1 [ Introducing Mr. Spectator] |
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2319 | (3) |
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From The Female Spectator, Vol. 1, No. 1 [ The Author's Intent] |
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2322 | (2) |
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From Tatler No. 18 [ The News Writers in Danger] |
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2324 | (1) |
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From Tatler No. 155 [ The Political Upholsterer] |
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2324 | (2) |
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From Spectator No. 10 [ The Spectator and Its Readers] |
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2326 | (2) |
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Getting, Spending, Speculating |
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2328 | (9) |
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2329 | (1) |
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Spectator No. 69 [ Royal Exchange] |
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2330 | (1) |
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2331 | (2) |
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Spectator No. 11 [ Inkle and Yarico] |
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2333 | (2) |
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From A Review of the State of the British Nation, Vol. 1, No. 43 [ Weak Foundations] |
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2335 | (2) |
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Advertisements from the Spectator |
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2337 | (1) |
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Women and Men, Manners, and Marriage (Web) |
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2337 | (101) |
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2337 | (3) |
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A Description of the Morning |
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2340 | (1) |
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A Description of a City Shower |
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2341 | (2) |
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2343 | (1) |
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2344 | (2) |
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2346 | (4) |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room |
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2350 | (2) |
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Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. |
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2352 | (14) |
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2366 | (1) |
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2366 | (4) |
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2370 | (1) |
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From Part
3. A Voyage to Laputa |
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2371 | (10) |
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Part
4. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms |
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2381 | (45) |
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Gulliver's Travels and Its Time |
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2426 | (1) |
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From Letters on Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope |
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2427 | (1) |
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Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift |
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2427 | (1) |
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John Gay to Jonathan Swift |
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2428 | (1) |
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Jonathan Swift to Alexander Pope |
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2429 | (1) |
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"The Prince of Lilliput" to Stella |
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2430 | (1) |
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2431 | (6) |
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A Modest Proposal and Its Time |
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2437 | (1) |
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William Petty from Political Arithmetic |
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2437 | (1) |
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2438 | (105) |
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2438 | (2) |
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2440 | (18) |
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2458 | (12) |
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2470 | (21) |
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2491 | (1) |
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From Book 12 [ Sarpedon's Speech] |
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2491 | (1) |
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2492 | (9) |
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2501 | (1) |
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2501 | (1) |
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2501 | (1) |
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2502 | (7) |
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An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot |
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2509 | (12) |
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An Epistle To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women |
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2521 | (1) |
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Epistle
2. To a Lady: Of the Characters of Women |
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2521 | (7) |
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2528 | (1) |
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Mary Leapor: An Essay on Woman |
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2528 | (3) |
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From The Dunciad in Four Books |
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2531 | (1) |
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2531 | (11) |
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2542 | (1) |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |
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2543 | (12) |
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From The Turkish Embassy Letters |
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2544 | (1) |
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To Lady---[ On the Turkish Baths] |
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2544 | (2) |
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To Lady Mar [ On Turkish Dress] |
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2546 | (2) |
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Letter to Lady Bute [ On Her Granddaughter] |
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2548 | (3) |
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Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband |
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2551 | (2) |
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2553 | (2) |
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2555 | (48) |
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2557 | (46) |
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"The Beggar's Opera" and Its Time Influences and Impact (Web) |
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2603 | (10) |
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2605 | (8) |
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Perspectives Mind and God |
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2613 | (178) |
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2614 | (1) |
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From Letter to Richard Bentley |
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2615 | (2) |
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2617 | (1) |
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From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
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2618 | (4) |
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2622 | (1) |
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A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy |
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2623 | (1) |
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The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders |
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2623 | (2) |
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Against Idleness and Mischief |
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2625 | (1) |
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Man Frail, and God Eternal |
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2625 | (1) |
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Miracles Attending Israel's Journey |
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2626 | (1) |
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2627 | (1) |
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2627 | (2) |
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2629 | (1) |
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From Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous |
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2629 | (2) |
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2631 | (1) |
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From A Treatise of Human Nature |
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2632 | (3) |
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From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding |
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2635 | (2) |
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2637 | (1) |
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2638 | (3) |
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2641 | (1) |
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Light Shining out of Darkness |
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2642 | (1) |
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2642 | (1) |
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2643 | (2) |
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2645 | (20) |
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2646 | (1) |
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[ Autumn Evening and Night] |
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2646 | (3) |
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2649 | (1) |
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2650 | (1) |
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2650 | (5) |
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2655 | (1) |
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"The Seasons" and Its Time |
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Poems of Nightfall and Night |
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2656 | (1) |
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Edward Young from The Complaint |
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2656 | (3) |
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William Collins Ode to Evening |
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2659 | (1) |
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Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson |
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2660 | (2) |
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William Cowper from The Task |
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2662 | (3) |
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2665 | (9) |
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Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West |
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2666 | (1) |
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
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2667 | (2) |
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Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes |
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2669 | (1) |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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2670 | (4) |
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2674 | (3) |
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The Vanity of Human Wishes |
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2677 | (9) |
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A Short Song of Congratulation |
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2686 | (1) |
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On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet |
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2686 | (1) |
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2687 | (1) |
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2688 | (3) |
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2691 | (3) |
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2694 | (3) |
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No. 170 (On Misella, a Prostitute) (Web) |
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No. 171 (Misella Continues) (Web) |
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No. 207 (Beginnings, Middles, and Ends) (Web) |
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2697 | (1) |
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2697 | (1) |
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2698 | (2) |
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No. 84 [ On Autobiography] |
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2700 | (2) |
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No. 97 [ On Travel Writing] |
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2702 | (1) |
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A Dictionary of the English Language |
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2703 | (1) |
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2704 | (6) |
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2710 | (8) |
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From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia |
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2718 | (1) |
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Chapter
8. The History of Imlac |
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2719 | (1) |
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Chapter
9. The History of Imlac Continued |
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2720 | (2) |
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Chapter
10. Imlac's History Continued. A Dissertation upon Poetry |
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2722 | (1) |
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Chapter
11. Imlac's Narrative Continued. A Hint on Pilgrimage |
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2723 | (2) |
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Chapter
12. The Story of Imlac Continued |
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2725 | (2) |
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From The Plays of William Shakespeare |
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2727 | (1) |
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2727 | (1) |
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[ "Just Representations of General Nature"] |
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2727 | (3) |
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2730 | (6) |
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[ Selected Notes on Othello] |
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2736 | (2) |
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2738 | (1) |
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2739 | (2) |
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2741 | (3) |
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2744 | (1) |
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To Lord Chesterfield (7 February 1755) |
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2744 | (1) |
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To Hester Thrale (19 June 1783) |
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2745 | (2) |
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To Hester Thrale Piozzi (2 July 1784) |
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2747 | (1) |
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To Hester Thrale Piozzi (8 July 1784) |
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2747 | (1) |
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2748 | (29) |
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2750 | (1) |
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2750 | (3) |
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2753 | (4) |
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[ First Meeting with Johnson] |
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2757 | (1) |
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An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq. |
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2758 | (3) |
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From The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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2761 | (1) |
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[ Introduction; Boswell's Method] |
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2761 | (2) |
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[ Conversations about Hume] |
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2763 | (2) |
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2765 | (6) |
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[ Conversations at Streatham and the Club] |
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2771 | (6) |
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2777 | (14) |
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2778 | (10) |
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George Crabbe: from The Village |
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2788 | (2) |
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George Crabbe: from The Parish Register |
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2790 | (1) |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Web) |
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The School for Scandal (Web) |
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Perspectives Novel Guises |
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2791 | (48) |
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From The Case of Madam Mary Carleton (Web) |
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2792 | (1) |
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From The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe |
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2793 | (3) |
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From The Fortunate Mistress: or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II (Web) |
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2796 | (1) |
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Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze |
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2796 | (17) |
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2813 | (1) |
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From Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded |
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2814 | (5) |
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From The Preface to Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady |
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2819 | (1) |
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From The Preface to The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Baronet |
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2819 | (1) |
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2820 | (1) |
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From An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews |
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2821 | (2) |
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From The Preface to The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews |
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2823 | (3) |
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From The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling |
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2826 | (2) |
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2828 | (1) |
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From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman |
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2829 | (2) |
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2831 | (1) |
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2831 | (3) |
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From Evelina; or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World Evelina to the Reverend Mr. Villars |
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2834 | (3) |
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From The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties |
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2837 | (2) |
| Credits |
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2839 | (1) |
| Index |
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