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... Richardson to Milton . Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire in 1689 . His school nickname , " Serious and Gravity , " would have fitted him throughout his life . He was intended for the church , but since the family means did not ...
... Richardson to Milton . Samuel Richardson was born in Derbyshire in 1689 . His school nickname , " Serious and Gravity , " would have fitted him throughout his life . He was intended for the church , but since the family means did not ...
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... Richardson as sexual moralist is not , perhaps , a very endearing person , but he was not simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what ...
... Richardson as sexual moralist is not , perhaps , a very endearing person , but he was not simply a sexual moralist . What Richardson's readers were so ardently responding to was his treatment of the situation of their time , and what ...
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... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract , and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
... Richardson's novels . Pamela was an excessively brilliant trial run , executed in the crude contrasts of a moral tract , and Sir Charles Grandison is too much of its time . The hero represents Richardson's ideal of manly virtue as ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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