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Page 63
... Smollett stresses the unnaturalness not only by his description but by the words in which he makes the description : half a yard suggests something longer than eighteen inches , fantastically long though that is for a human face ...
... Smollett stresses the unnaturalness not only by his description but by the words in which he makes the description : half a yard suggests something longer than eighteen inches , fantastically long though that is for a human face ...
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... Smollett attacked his age precisely where it was most vulnerable , where it was dirty and diseased . If we today think of the eighteenth cen- tury in terms of its architecture , then Smollett shows us what lies beyond the sobriety and ...
... Smollett attacked his age precisely where it was most vulnerable , where it was dirty and diseased . If we today think of the eighteenth cen- tury in terms of its architecture , then Smollett shows us what lies beyond the sobriety and ...
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... Smollett's power of pathos ; it has always , and rightly , been compared with the death of Falstaff . Smollett belonged to the glorious company of English hack writers who have turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel ...
... Smollett's power of pathos ; it has always , and rightly , been compared with the death of Falstaff . Smollett belonged to the glorious company of English hack writers who have turned their hands to anything . Verse , drama , travel ...
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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