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Page 111
... better go . ' And I'd desire no better than that she would take me at my word , for my Lady Dashfort's is a much better place , I'm told , and she's dying to have me , I know . " In such a soliloquy as this we are not far away from the ...
... better go . ' And I'd desire no better than that she would take me at my word , for my Lady Dashfort's is a much better place , I'm told , and she's dying to have me , I know . " In such a soliloquy as this we are not far away from the ...
Page 136
... better than did the English . 4 A consequence of Scott's enormous popular success was that he made the Scottish novel itself possible . Though the greatest Scottish novelist of his time , Scott was not the only one ; but Waverley had ...
... better than did the English . 4 A consequence of Scott's enormous popular success was that he made the Scottish novel itself possible . Though the greatest Scottish novelist of his time , Scott was not the only one ; but Waverley had ...
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... better or for worse , more than any- one else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel . Describing Flaubert as a man who " was born a novelist , grew up , lived , died a novelist , breathing , feeling , thinking ...
... better or for worse , more than any- one else he made what seems to be the specifically modern novel . Describing Flaubert as a man who " was born a novelist , grew up , lived , died a novelist , breathing , feeling , thinking ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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