Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Biographical History of English Literature, Being an Elementary Introduction to the Greater English Writers: With Four Hundred Exercises
Hence I have spent much labour in drawing up Exercises - a new thing in a book like this. The purpose of these Exercises is to train to a careful and minute examination and valuation of words, and hence to accuracy and conscientiousness in the use of them; and I have followed, as far as I could, the method of comparison recommended by writers in the Quarterly Journal of Education and in the Educational Times. The Exercises have been used With several classes of learners.
It was found impossible to discuss, With any practical utility, the dramatists, or their representatives in the nineteenth century the novelists. The subject here became too large to be treated With justice in a book for beginners; but I have tried to give a. Short view of the origin of the drama.
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