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Excerpt from Longmans' Handbook of English Literature, Vol. 4 It is a period sufficiently remote to gain the charm of distance, and the Spectator and Tom Jones carry us back into a world very different from our own. But it is sufficiently near to make us feel we are in living con tact with it, and Swift and Pope and Johnson are far more real persons to us than Shakspere or Bacon or Milton can be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.