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It is direct , unaffected , the product of a mind stored with knowledge of men and
of books — he is always driving a point home with an apt quotation , from the
classics or from Shakespeare . He is telling a story , the action of which has been
...
It is direct , unaffected , the product of a mind stored with knowledge of men and
of books — he is always driving a point home with an apt quotation , from the
classics or from Shakespeare . He is telling a story , the action of which has been
...
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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 life ...
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 life ...
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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 were a ...
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 were a ...
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Contents
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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