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ENaLIsH LITERATURE OF THE 18th CENTURY

ENGLIsH LITERATURE OF THE 18th CENTURY
New Edition.
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IL. Philadelphia, have recently published new,
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century,
On the plan Of the authors Compendium Of English
Literature, and supplementary to it. Designed for
colleges and advanced classes in schools as vel as
for private reading. BY Charles d. Cleveland.
The Compendium Of English Literature, by Prof
Cleveland, comprises biographical sketches and
lections from the writings of English authors from
the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, chronology
cally arranged together with copous Notes, explain
atory, illustrative, dc. The volume advertised,
which il arranged on the plan MS the Com
pendulum" comprises in its list OF authors such as
ourished in the eighteenth century, bat died In tho
present; together with those strictly Of the nine
teenth century, whether living or dead.
The present edition Of English Literature Of the
Nineteenth Centuryo contains biographical sketches
and selections from the writings of one hundred and
six authors, tho Of twenty soven OF whom did
not appear in the table OF contents Of the former ed
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From Pref Chnnncey A; Goodrich, ID. d., Of Yale
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II consider Prof Ceveland's English Literature
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