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Short pieces and excerpts from writers of the period, including Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, Edward Gibbon, Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, and many others on the topics of: The Picture of the Age: Scene, Personality, Event; The Movement of Ideas: Reflection, Argument, Exhortation, Satire; The World of Imagination, Feeling, and Comic Invention: Fiction, Historical and Occasional Writing; and The Criticism of the Arts. |
