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Page 85
Sensibility, in its various manifestations, was the contemporary expression of
what Johnson called 'that hunger of the imagination which preys incessantly on
life'. Johnson knew all about sensibility, and for him, as for the great writers of the
first ...
Sensibility, in its various manifestations, was the contemporary expression of
what Johnson called 'that hunger of the imagination which preys incessantly on
life'. Johnson knew all about sensibility, and for him, as for the great writers of the
first ...
Page 136
In the shape of the Evangelical Movement, the idea swept over England on a
flood-tide; by the seventeen-eighties it had received brilliant literary expression in
Cowper's poem The Task. Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it; and it is
amusing ...
In the shape of the Evangelical Movement, the idea swept over England on a
flood-tide; by the seventeen-eighties it had received brilliant literary expression in
Cowper's poem The Task. Jane Austen's novels had reinforced it; and it is
amusing ...
Page 148
He could no longer afford the open cynicism of Pixian Grey, and when it
appeared, Coningsby was at once a tract for the times, a political manifesto, and
an expression of the grossest flattery towards its author's young supporters, four
men of ...
He could no longer afford the open cynicism of Pixian Grey, and when it
appeared, Coningsby was at once a tract for the times, a political manifesto, and
an expression of the grossest flattery towards its author's young supporters, four
men of ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Beginnings | 19 |
The Eighteenth Century | 40 |
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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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