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Word: thackerays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confined channels. Shakespeare, Scott and Goldsmith-these are great names, but to have an adequate acquaintance with English literature one must know the works of many other writers. A great educational institution ought to direct the attention of its students to Milton, for example, and to Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Pope, Dryden, Sterne, Burton, and some dozens besides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English at Harvard. | 2/10/1888 | See Source »

...Estimate of Thackeray," the second prose article, is a very powerful tribute to that celebrated novelist. The writer shows his deep admiration for Thackeray, but yet is not led to indulge in unnecessary praise. It is an able article, but much too heavy for the Advocate. The paper has chosen its field and its readers expect lighter literature than essays on novelists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 2/7/1888 | See Source »

...line of Opera Glasses just ready. Smith's "Moral Sentiments" is ready; also a third lot of Von Holst's "Constitutional Law." The Sterling editions of George Eliot and Thackery editions of George Eliot and Thackeray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

...London pocket editions of Dickens and Thackeray are also ready. Price 38 cents per vol.; 5 vols. or more at 35 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 11/30/1887 | See Source »

...London pocket editions of Dickens and Thackeray are also ready. Price 38 cents per vol.; 5 vols. or more at 35 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 11/29/1887 | See Source »

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