A Critical Dictionary of English Literature

by Samuel Austin Allibone

ALLIBONE'S

Dictionary of English Literature

AND

BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS.

A

CRITICAL DICTIONARY

OF

ENGLISH LITERATURE

AND

BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS

Living and Deceased

FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS

TO THE LATTER HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

CONTAINING

OYER FORTY-SIX THOUSAND ARTICLES (AUTHORS),

With Forty Indexes of Subjects.

BY

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

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“The Chief Glory of every People Arises from its Authors.”—Dr. Johnson

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PHILADELPHIA

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

1871.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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TO

GEORGE WILLIAM CHILDS,

The Original Publisher of this Volume,

WHO HAS GREATLY FURTHERED MY LABOURS BY HIS ENTERPRISE

AND

ZEALOUS AND INTELLIGENT INTEREST,

I Dedicate

THE FRUITS OF MANY YEARS OF ANXIOUS RESEARCH

AND

CONSCIENTIOUS TOIL.

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

Philadelphia, September 1, 1858.

Chapters (not listed in original)

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• Hartley, David, M.D.
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