Chronological Outlines of English Literature

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Macmillan and Company, 1896 - English literature - 351 pages
 

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Page 311 - The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858). The Life and Death of Jason (1867). The Earthly Paradise (1868-70).
Page 265 - Plants (1875), The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (1876), Different Forms of Flowers in Plants of the same Species...
Page 243 - Culture and Anarchy (1869), St. Paul and Protestantism (1870), Friendship's Garland (1871), Literature and Dogma (1873), God and the Bible (1875), Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877), Mixed Essays (1879), Irish Essays (1882), and Discourses in America (1885).
Page 286 - Stage, 1818; Lectures on the English Poets, 1818; Lectures on the English Comic Writers...
Page 326 - Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805; Ballads and Lyrical Pieces, 1806; Marmion : a Tale of Flodden Field, 1808 ; Life of Dryden ; The Lady of the Lake, 1810; Vision of Don Roderick, 1811; Rokeby, 1813; The Bridal of Triermain, 1813; Abstract of Eyrbiggia Saga, in Jamieson's "Northern Antiquities...
Page 349 - Isle of Palms, 1812. City of the Plague, 1816. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, 1822.
Page 202 - Factory Act limits working day for women and young persons to io hours. James Simpson discovers anaesthetic properties of chloroform. Louis Napoleon escapes to England from prison. A. Bronte, Agnes Grey; C. Bronte, Jane Eyre; E. Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Tennyson, The Princess. ]. M. Morton's Box and Cox acted Outbreak of cholera in London. Public Health Act. End of Chartist Movement. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded. 'The Year of Revolutions
Page 299 - Ephesians. To which is prefixed an Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, by consulting St. Paul himself.
Page 301 - Pilgrims of the Rhine, 1834. The Last Days of Pompeii, 1834. Rienzi, 1835.
Page 320 - The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), A Journey through Holland, &c.

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