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... Richardson's words , ' by all manner of temp- tations , to seduce her .... She had recourse to as many innocent ... Richardson put aside the Familiar Letters for a future occasion and , retaining only the letter form for his narra- tive ...
... Richardson's words , ' by all manner of temp- tations , to seduce her .... She had recourse to as many innocent ... Richardson put aside the Familiar Letters for a future occasion and , retaining only the letter form for his narra- tive ...
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... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract ; and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract ; and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
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... Richardson and Marivaux have much in common because the forces that shaped them were common to both . The influence of Richardson himself on later novelists has been so huge as to be incalculable . For the first generation of the novel ...
... Richardson and Marivaux have much in common because the forces that shaped them were common to both . The influence of Richardson himself on later novelists has been so huge as to be incalculable . For the first generation of the novel ...
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