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... English versions , Head's The English Rogue ( 1665 ) , is a dreary , ill - written compilation , describing the life of ' Meriton Latroon , a witty extravagant ' , from his boyhood , through prison , to his departure for the East Indies ...
... English versions , Head's The English Rogue ( 1665 ) , is a dreary , ill - written compilation , describing the life of ' Meriton Latroon , a witty extravagant ' , from his boyhood , through prison , to his departure for the East Indies ...
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... English , and very stilted , nerveless English at that . Generally his characters are alive in their dialogue only in the vernacular . Then it is not easy to imagine richer dialogue . It is , therefore , untrue to say that Scott could ...
... English , and very stilted , nerveless English at that . Generally his characters are alive in their dialogue only in the vernacular . Then it is not easy to imagine richer dialogue . It is , therefore , untrue to say that Scott could ...
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... English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of the English novel , a change so significant as almost to amount to a mutation ...
... English novelist . Put thus baldly , the statement begs too many questions to have much meaning . Yet it is true that her work marks a change in the nature of the English novel , a change so significant as almost to amount to a mutation ...
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