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31Restoration literature — is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660 ndash;1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general …
32Augustan literature — is a style of English literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century, ending in the 1740s with the deaths of Pope and Swift (1744 and 1745, respectively). It is a literary… …
33American and British English spelling differences — Spelling differences redirects here. For other uses, see Category:Language comparison. For guidelines on dialects and spelling in the English language version of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Differences… …
34Confessio Amantis — ( The Lover s Confession ) is a 33,000 line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it… …
35Shifting dullness — Dullness redirects here. For the goddess in The Dunciad, see Dulness. In medicine, shifting dullness refers to a sign, elicited on physical examination, for ascites[1]. The two steps of shifting dullness. To perform the …
36John Ozell — (? October 15, 1743) was an English translator and accountant who became an adversary to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. He moved to London from the country at around the age of twenty and entered an accounting firm, where he was successful in …
37John Tutchin — (Born 1660? 1664? September 23, 1707) was a radical Whig controversialist and gadfly English journalist (born in Lymington, Hampshire), whose The Observator and earlier political activism earned him multiple trips before the bar. He was of a… …
38Leonard Welsted — ( baptised June 3, 1688 August 1747) was an English poet and dunce in Alexander Pope s writings (both in The Dunciad and in Peri Bathos ). Welsted was an accomplished writer who composed in a relaxed, light hearted vein. He was associated with… …
39Ode to St. Cecilia (Purcell) — Hail! Bright Cecilia (Z.328), also known as Ode to St. Cecilia, was composed to a text by Nicholas Brady by Henry Purcell in 1692 in honour of the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. Annual celebrations of this saint s feast… …
40Sonnet 56 — Sonnet|56 Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Which but to day by feeding is allayed, To morrow sharpened in his former might: So, love, be thou, although to day thou fill Thy hungry eyes, even… …
