Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... write their private Business to their Friends in the Country , ' and both of which the great Mr Edmund Smith - one of Dr Johnson's poets , if you please - celebrated in Latin Sapphics : Scribe securus , quid agit Senatus , Quid caput ...
... write their private Business to their Friends in the Country , ' and both of which the great Mr Edmund Smith - one of Dr Johnson's poets , if you please - celebrated in Latin Sapphics : Scribe securus , quid agit Senatus , Quid caput ...
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... writer's own words ) of forging a story . ' In this last art Defoe is unrivalled . By the mental stenog- raphy and ... write Robinson Crusoe . There are indeed certain superficial resemblances between Richardson and Defoe . Both ...
... writer's own words ) of forging a story . ' In this last art Defoe is unrivalled . By the mental stenog- raphy and ... write Robinson Crusoe . There are indeed certain superficial resemblances between Richardson and Defoe . Both ...
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... writes . The one discovered an uninhabited island , the other the very - much - inhabited female heart ; and , as far ... write novels in Richardson's fashion . But even to - day many books bear manifest traces of the form that Fielding ...
... writes . The one discovered an uninhabited island , the other the very - much - inhabited female heart ; and , as far ... write novels in Richardson's fashion . But even to - day many books bear manifest traces of the form that Fielding ...
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... writer not . correspondingly endowed by nature . To write a Tristram Shandy or a Sentimental Journey there is no way but to be Sterne ; and Sternes are not turned out in bakers ' batches . Of other novels of the period which owe their ...
... writer not . correspondingly endowed by nature . To write a Tristram Shandy or a Sentimental Journey there is no way but to be Sterne ; and Sternes are not turned out in bakers ' batches . Of other novels of the period which owe their ...
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... Writing is one of the manifest features of the period . Not only Maids of Honour who could spell , -to vary Swift's ... write letters , or at all events did that best . One of the first of these is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , whose dis ...
... Writing is one of the manifest features of the period . Not only Maids of Honour who could spell , -to vary Swift's ... write letters , or at all events did that best . One of the first of these is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , whose dis ...
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