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Page 37
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 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 ...
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 ...
Page 276
His prose , besides , is as far removed as it can be from our present ideas of what
constitutes good style . At its worst , it is rebarbatively Teutonic and vulgar , and at
its best , except when it fuses into poetry , it is too brilliant , fatiguing because ...
His prose , besides , is as far removed as it can be from our present ideas of what
constitutes good style . At its worst , it is rebarbatively Teutonic and vulgar , and at
its best , except when it fuses into poetry , it is too brilliant , fatiguing because ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 24 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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