Word: dequincey
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given in alternate years. But the writings of not more than ten or twelve authors at most can be studied during the year. We have absolutely no opportunity as far as I know to get instruction in the works of such authors as Spencer, Bunyan, Campbell, Congreve, Cowper, Defoe, DeQuincey, Disraeli, Fielding, Fletcher, Herrick, Johnson, "Junius," Keats, Landor, Lovelace, Macaulay, Marlowe, Miss Martineau, Mill, Pepys, Percy, Richardson, Sheridan, Smollett, Stanley, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Tennyson, Thackeray, Thomson, Waller, - the list might be continued indefinitely. Every student of English literature should know something about every one of these authors. The only courses...
...that the themes of the next four months shall be based upon a study of well-known authors. Selections will be made among such writers as Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Tnackeray, and Lamb, and the themes must be in some way connected with the works of the authors chosen. DeQuincey has been taken for the December themes. His works will be placed either in the English alcove of the library, or in Sever...