A Voyage to the Moon

the eighteenth century by Samuel Derrick. The last is dedicated to the Earl of Orrery, author of “Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift,” a

century translator has toned down the style to make it more acceptable to that age of reason and regularity. It is still another case of the irony of Fate pursuing Cyrano; the regular — ists of seventeenth century literature in France, against whom he struggled so swashbucklerly, had completely triumphed and spread their influence over Europe; so that even in the land where liberty

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