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... Scott we cannot do better than continue the quotation : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style . He can ... Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion and ...
... Scott we cannot do better than continue the quotation : He is seen to have a trivial mind and a heavy style . He can ... Scott's laborious mountains and scooped - out glens and carefully ruined abbeys call out for passion , passion and ...
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... Scott criticism to say that he approached his characters from the outside , presented , so to say , the pub- lic view of them ; which , after all , is very much what an historian like Macaulay did with his characters ; but Scott does so ...
... Scott criticism to say that he approached his characters from the outside , presented , so to say , the pub- lic view of them ; which , after all , is very much what an historian like Macaulay did with his characters ; but Scott does so ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. L ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers , to Mérimée , for example , with his won- derful Mateo Falcone . Looking back on Scott's novels in memory , at any ...
A Short Critical History Walter Ernest Allen. L ers we can see what Scott meant to a later generation of European writers , to Mérimée , for example , with his won- derful Mateo Falcone . Looking back on Scott's novels in memory , at any ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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