The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... magazines arose and perished . The London Magazine , how- ever , survived to 1785. A northern imitator , The Scots Magazine , begun in 1739 , had a still longer career ; and as the original won such strong regard from Johnson that ...
... magazines arose and perished . The London Magazine , how- ever , survived to 1785. A northern imitator , The Scots Magazine , begun in 1739 , had a still longer career ; and as the original won such strong regard from Johnson that ...
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... Magazine . The commotion it caused is as well known as the story of the foundation of The Edinburgh Review . Locally at least this commotion was mainly due to The Chaldee Manuscript , an extremely amusing and in the main good - natured ...
... Magazine . The commotion it caused is as well known as the story of the foundation of The Edinburgh Review . Locally at least this commotion was mainly due to The Chaldee Manuscript , an extremely amusing and in the main good - natured ...
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... sheer weight of genius its staff surpassed any that has ever gathered round an English magazine , for it included Coleridge , Carlyle and Thackeray ; but it hardly equalled The London Magazine in respect of EARLY MAGAZINES OF 19TH CENTURY ...
... sheer weight of genius its staff surpassed any that has ever gathered round an English magazine , for it included Coleridge , Carlyle and Thackeray ; but it hardly equalled The London Magazine in respect of EARLY MAGAZINES OF 19TH CENTURY ...
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