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What Walpole thought he got from Shakespeare was the contrast , making for pathos , between the sublime " of princes and heroes ” and the naiveté of " their domestics . ” Walpole was after that mixture of tragedy and comedy within the ...
What Walpole thought he got from Shakespeare was the contrast , making for pathos , between the sublime " of princes and heroes ” and the naiveté of " their domestics . ” Walpole was after that mixture of tragedy and comedy within the ...
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... flowers of darkness they are , she thought ( as if some lovely rose had blossomed for her eyes alone ) ; not for a moment did she believe in God ; but all the more , she thought , taking up the pad , must one repay ...
... flowers of darkness they are , she thought ( as if some lovely rose had blossomed for her eyes alone ) ; not for a moment did she believe in God ; but all the more , she thought , taking up the pad , must one repay ...
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She enters the novel as a character in her own right only at the end ; her thoughts , poured out pell - mell , form its tremendous climax . She is in bed at night , relaxed , drowsy after love , isolated from any contact with the world ...
She enters the novel as a character in her own right only at the end ; her thoughts , poured out pell - mell , form its tremendous climax . She is in bed at night , relaxed , drowsy after love , isolated from any contact with the world ...
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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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