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Page 50
But we feel, of Mrs. Tow- wouse, Parson Trulliber (the finest of them all, after
Adams himself), Mrs. Slipslop, and the rest, that they would be capable of
surprising us if they were given the opportunity. "I describe," said Fielding, "not
men, but ...
But we feel, of Mrs. Tow- wouse, Parson Trulliber (the finest of them all, after
Adams himself), Mrs. Slipslop, and the rest, that they would be capable of
surprising us if they were given the opportunity. "I describe," said Fielding, "not
men, but ...
Page 87
When rescued and pieced together, the manuscript contains the story of Harley,
the Man of Feeling, to whom "a blush, a phrase of affability to an inferior, a tear at
a moving tale, were . . . like the Cestus of Cythera, unequalled in conferring ...
When rescued and pieced together, the manuscript contains the story of Harley,
the Man of Feeling, to whom "a blush, a phrase of affability to an inferior, a tear at
a moving tale, were . . . like the Cestus of Cythera, unequalled in conferring ...
Page 101
There are times in The Mysteries of Udolpho when landscape seems merely to
serve the purpose of a backcloth, when we feel that we are being taken, with
Emily, on a conducted tour of the Mediterranean littoral. But even then the
background ...
There are times in The Mysteries of Udolpho when landscape seems merely to
serve the purpose of a backcloth, when we feel that we are being taken, with
Emily, on a conducted tour of the Mediterranean littoral. But even then the
background ...
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Contents
THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History A Dutton paperback Part 9 of Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1955 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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