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Page 135
The age represented the triumph of protestantism, and , perhaps its great
achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea! of respectability. It was a
great achievement, no matter how dingy may be our present associations with
the ...
The age represented the triumph of protestantism, and , perhaps its great
achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea! of respectability. It was a
great achievement, no matter how dingy may be our present associations with
the ...
Page 193
Perched as he is on the edge of the over-pathetic, Mr Harding is a very
considerable achievement; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness; and so is
Eleanor Bold. Trollope was not a sentimental man, but in The Warden he gave
full ...
Perched as he is on the edge of the over-pathetic, Mr Harding is a very
considerable achievement; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness; and so is
Eleanor Bold. Trollope was not a sentimental man, but in The Warden he gave
full ...
Page 259
... seriously, are Muniment's, to make him the dedicated soldier of the class-war;
her achievement is the quite involuntary one of making him see the heritage he is
barred from in a wholly new light and understand the price its existence entails.
... seriously, are Muniment's, to make him the dedicated soldier of the class-war;
her achievement is the quite involuntary one of making him see the heritage he is
barred from in a wholly new light and understand the price its existence entails.
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Volume 9 of Dutton Paperback: D Pelican books |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Publisher | Phoenix House, 1954 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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