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Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height
of a present distress; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty (the events
then hidden in the womb of fate); than the dry, narrative, unanimated style of a ...
Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height
of a present distress; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty (the events
then hidden in the womb of fate); than the dry, narrative, unanimated style of a ...
Page 92
... the present and the past. Then, with the beginning of the eighteenth century,
the past, the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of
human achievement moderns might possibly equal but could never expect to
surpass, ...
... the present and the past. Then, with the beginning of the eighteenth century,
the past, the great ages of Greece and Rome always excepted as peaks of
human achievement moderns might possibly equal but could never expect to
surpass, ...
Page 156
When the reaction against the age set in, among intellectuals in the nineties,
among the general public in the first twenty years of the present century, the
Victorians were commonly charged with smugness, complacency, hypocrisy, and
foolish ...
When the reaction against the age set in, among intellectuals in the nineties,
among the general public in the first twenty years of the present century, the
Victorians were commonly charged with smugness, complacency, hypocrisy, and
foolish ...
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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