ENGLISH LITERATURE.

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A MANUAL

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE,

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

WITH AN APPENDIX ON. ENGLISH METRES.

BY

THOMAS ARNOLD, B.A.

Formerly Scholar of Univ. Coll. Oxford, and late Prof. of Eng. Lit. in the
Cath. Univ. of Ireland.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, & GREEN.
1862.

250. l. 40.

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