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Page 57
... follows the lower ; Night- ingale ; the Blifils , father and son ; Squire Western and his politically minded feminist sister ; Sophia herself ; Mr. All- worthy . Fielding was not creating characters merely for the sake of creating ...
... follows the lower ; Night- ingale ; the Blifils , father and son ; Squire Western and his politically minded feminist sister ; Sophia herself ; Mr. All- worthy . Fielding was not creating characters merely for the sake of creating ...
Page 66
... follows invention in the most daz- zling manner , and all is told in a direct prose , stripped , muscular . As a panoramic novelist , Smollett has never been surpassed . Roderick Random is one of his two best novels , and in a sense it ...
... follows invention in the most daz- zling manner , and all is told in a direct prose , stripped , muscular . As a panoramic novelist , Smollett has never been surpassed . Roderick Random is one of his two best novels , and in a sense it ...
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... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in con- trol of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ma ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
... follows another in orderly sequence , that you are in con- trol of your thoughts , that your mind is as it were a ma ... follow , an ' please your worships , that the more I write , the more I shall have to write and consequently , the ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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