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Page 136
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : “ I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to C IS D Sc love ...
... seen in a letter Miss Ferrier wrote to a friend with whom she proposed to collaborate : “ I do not recollect ever to have seen the sudden transition of a high- bred English beauty , who thinks she can sacrifice all to C IS D Sc love ...
Page 143
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
... seen it which fills up the interstices of the plot . Gerald Griffin's The Collegians ( 1828 ) had fame in its own day , indeed an extended fame , since one of the most popular of Victorian melodramas , The Colleen Bawn , was based on it ...
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... seen and rendered as it were for the first time , with the innocent eye ; a small instance is the road that is seen as bisecting Egdon Heath “ like the parting - line on a head of black hair . " But the accuracy is no less when the ...
... seen and rendered as it were for the first time , with the innocent eye ; a small instance is the road that is seen as bisecting Egdon Heath “ like the parting - line on a head of black hair . " But the accuracy is no less when the ...
Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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