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... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she- Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic movement . This does not mean that she was ignorant of ...
... romantic novelist . The close contemporary of the great romantic poets - Wordsworth was five years , Coleridge three years older than she- Miss Austen was untouched by the romantic movement . This does not mean that she was ignorant of ...
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... romantic hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colorless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravens- wood , in The Bride ...
... romantic hero and the romantic heroine . It is the fate of the romantic hero to be colorless , and perhaps Scott's are no more so than Nicholas Nickleby ; the one hero who does emerge as a living character is Ravens- wood , in The Bride ...
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... romantic tourist's no- tion of one ; it is not beside the point that he is the son of a dentist , the least romantic of professions . He is pre- sented as unsentimentally as possible , but he fails in the part he must play in the scheme ...
... romantic tourist's no- tion of one ; it is not beside the point that he is the son of a dentist , the least romantic of professions . He is pre- sented as unsentimentally as possible , but he fails in the part he must play in the scheme ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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