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Page 156
The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great
achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a
great achievement , no matter how dingy may be our present associations with
the word ...
The age represented the triumph of protestantism , and perhaps its great
achievement was the universal acceptance of the idea of respectability . It was a
great achievement , no matter how dingy may be our present associations with
the word ...
Page 208
It is an impressive achievement , but for all that , Esmond never suggests what it
sets out to be , an eighteenth - century work written by a man who is an elderly
contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century
in ...
It is an impressive achievement , but for all that , Esmond never suggests what it
sets out to be , an eighteenth - century work written by a man who is an elderly
contemporary of Fielding and Smollett . It is thoroughly mid - nineteenth century
in ...
Page 233
Perched as he is on the edge of the overpathetic , Mr . Harding is a very
considerable achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness , and so
is Eleanor Bold . Trollope was not a sentimental man , but in The Warden he
gave full rein ...
Perched as he is on the edge of the overpathetic , Mr . Harding is a very
considerable achievement ; yet he is conceived in too much sweetness , and so
is Eleanor Bold . Trollope was not a sentimental man , but in The Warden he
gave full rein ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
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 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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