Excerpt from A Smaller History of English and American Literature: For the Use of Schools

Selections from the works Of the authors named in this vol ume, which illustrate their styles, are also issued as choice specimens OF english literature and references, throughout this volume, will be found, in heavy-faced type, to the particular extracts in that volume which illustrate the' authors of this.

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