The English Novel: A Short Critical HistoryA brilliant, critical history of the novel from Bunyan to Lawrence and Joyce. |
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... did not allow this he was sent to London at the age of seventeen to be appren- ticed to a printer . The very pattern of the industrious apprentice , even to the point of marrying his master's 31 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
... did not allow this he was sent to London at the age of seventeen to be appren- ticed to a printer . The very pattern of the industrious apprentice , even to the point of marrying his master's 31 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
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... eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar ur- banity and a belief in the disinfecting properties of reason ... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 83.
... eighteenth - century prose . Graves was a much smaller writer than Fielding , but like him wrote as a scholar and a gentleman , with a similar ur- banity and a belief in the disinfecting properties of reason ... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 83.
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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 ... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 89.
... 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 ... EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 89.
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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