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... follows invention in the most daz- zling 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 daz- zling 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 ...
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... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in con- trol of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ma ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in con- trol of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ma ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
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... follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters de- scribing how a clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her husband and how the bishop in turn bribes a duchess in an attempt to get a va- cant ...
... follow it instantly with another ; if the chapters de- scribing how a clergyman's wife bribes a bishop's wife in order to get a vacant living for her husband and how the bishop in turn bribes a duchess in an attempt to get a va- cant ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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