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Page 102
... hero and heroine , are to the point here . Colambre is a very passable attempt at a hero , for after Fielding and until we come to Meredith the great English novelists generally fail with their heroes . That he gets by is shown by our ...
... hero and heroine , are to the point here . Colambre is a very passable attempt at a hero , for after Fielding and until we come to Meredith the great English novelists generally fail with their heroes . That he gets by is shown by our ...
Page 116
... hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colourless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravenswood , in The Bride of ...
... hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colourless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravenswood , in The Bride of ...
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... hero . The subject is self - determination , the hero the young man in revolt against his family background and the values it represents . One can't say such novels would not have been written except for Butler's example : they include ...
... hero . The subject is self - determination , the hero the young man in revolt against his family background and the values it represents . One can't say such novels would not have been written except for Butler's example : they include ...
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