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... century the first , Richardson and Fielding , are the greatest . No two great writers have ever existed in one period in sharper contrast with each other . They embody the two extremes of the creative impulse . Coleridge wrote in the ...
... century the first , Richardson and Fielding , are the greatest . No two great writers have ever existed in one period in sharper contrast with each other . They embody the two extremes of the creative impulse . Coleridge wrote in the ...
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... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
... century of more intense romanticism , it is hard to see how the world of taste was so long deceived by the second - rate talents of Salvator . But we must realize that he was , in a minor degree , a kind of Byron . He opened a new vein ...
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... century moralist . In some respects , she was the last and finest flower of that century at its quintessential . She had escaped entirely the infection of sensibility and sentimentality ; for her those qualities are material only for ...
... century moralist . In some respects , she was the last and finest flower of that century at its quintessential . She had escaped entirely the infection of sensibility and sentimentality ; for her those qualities are material only for ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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