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... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she - Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic move- ment . This does not mean that she was ignorant ...
... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she - Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic move- ment . This does not mean that she was ignorant ...
Page 116
... romantic 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 ...
... romantic 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 ...
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... romantic young gentlemen and ladies : they habitually speak English , and very stilted , nerveless English at that . Generally his characters are alive in their dialogue only in the vernacular . Then it is not easy to imagine richer ...
... romantic young gentlemen and ladies : they habitually speak English , and very stilted , nerveless English at that . Generally his characters are alive in their dialogue only in the vernacular . Then it is not easy to imagine richer ...
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