An Introduction to the Study of English Literature: Comprising Representative Masterpieces in Poetry and Prose, Marking the Successive Stages of Its Growth, and a Methodical Exposition of the Governing Principles and General Forms, Both of the Language An

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The second part presents our language and litera ture in their elements in systematic order. Here are exhibited the principles governing the rise and forma tion of language; of English orthoepy, orthography, syllabication, word-formation, and of poetic forms in English the growth of our literature, also, in its sev eral departments of oratory, history, scientific dis course, fiction, the drama, and poetry, With notice of leading authors in each department separately in their chronological succession.

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