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The Spiritual Quixote remains a very agreeable work , written in a very agreeable
eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but
like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar urbanity and a ...
The Spiritual Quixote remains a very agreeable work , written in a very agreeable
eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but
like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar urbanity and a ...
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Sir Kenneth Clark has written in his Landscape Into Art : Today , after a 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
...
Sir Kenneth Clark has written in his Landscape Into Art : Today , after a 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
...
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THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : THE FIRST GENERATION English is al as in
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES , new directions , in literature are rarely so obliging as
to coincide in their appearance with such convenient points in time as the turn of
a ...
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : THE FIRST GENERATION English is al as in
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES , new directions , in literature are rarely so obliging as
to coincide in their appearance with such convenient points in time as the turn of
a ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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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 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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