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... follows invention in the most dazzling manner ; and all is told in a direct prose , stripped , muscular . As a panoramic novelist , Smollett has never been surpassed . Roderick Random is one of his two best novels , and in a sense it ...
... follows invention in the most dazzling manner ; and all is told in a direct prose , stripped , muscular . As a panoramic novelist , Smollett has never been surpassed . Roderick Random is one of his two best novels , and in a sense it ...
Page 74
... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the more ...
... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in control of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the more ...
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... follow The Portrait , The Bostonians and The Princess Casa- massima , both of which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying behind them is that of the novelist as the historian of his own time . These ...
... follow The Portrait , The Bostonians and The Princess Casa- massima , both of which appeared in 1886 , follow Balzac in that the notion of the novelist lying behind them is that of the novelist as the historian of his own time . These ...
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