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We do not need to know more of him , but we are persuaded that if we wished to we could . Another source of the vitality of Fielding's characters is the element in which they live , Fielding's mind ...
We do not need to know more of him , but we are persuaded that if we wished to we could . Another source of the vitality of Fielding's characters is the element in which they live , Fielding's mind ...
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The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial , fantastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an incessant shower of innumerable atoms ; and as they fall , as they shape themselves into ...
The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial , fantastic , evanescent , or engraved with the sharpness of steel . From all sides they come , an incessant shower of innumerable atoms ; and as they fall , as they shape themselves into ...
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Sterne had good philosophical and psychological bases for his view of the mind's workings ; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of ideas in the mind was an irrational process , but he was also writing as it ...
Sterne had good philosophical and psychological bases for his view of the mind's workings ; he was writing in accord with Locke's theory that the association of ideas in the mind was an irrational process , but he was also writing as it ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History |
| 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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