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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. lives . Because of this , we cannot hope to be able to judge them as we can ... Lives of the Novelists ; Hazlitt's The English Comic Writers ; Trollope's Autobiography ; the relevant essays in ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. lives . Because of this , we cannot hope to be able to judge them as we can ... Lives of the Novelists ; Hazlitt's The English Comic Writers ; Trollope's Autobiography ; the relevant essays in ...
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... lives and thinks wholly in terms of clerkliness . We move north , to the border , to Osbaldistone Hall , the family seat , where the family of Frank's uncle , Sir Hildebrand , con- sume an existence that can have changed scarcely at all ...
... lives and thinks wholly in terms of clerkliness . We move north , to the border , to Osbaldistone Hall , the family seat , where the family of Frank's uncle , Sir Hildebrand , con- sume an existence that can have changed scarcely at all ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. Are all men's lives like the lives of us good people - like the lives of the Ashburnhams , of the Dowells , of the Ruffords- broken , tumultuous , agonized , and unromantic lives , periods ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. Are all men's lives like the lives of us good people - like the lives of the Ashburnhams , of the Dowells , of the Ruffords- broken , tumultuous , agonized , and unromantic lives , periods ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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