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Page 83
... century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar ur- banity and a belief in the disinfecting properties of reason . Johnstone , like Fielding and Smollett ...
... century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar ur- banity and a belief in the disinfecting properties of reason . Johnstone , like Fielding and Smollett ...
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... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
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... century . The year 1800 , however , is a date of the first importance in the history of English fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was ...
... century . The year 1800 , however , is a date of the first importance in the history of English fiction , indeed of world fiction , for in that year Maria Edgeworth published her short novel Castle Rackrent . Not her first book , it was ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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