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... dramatic way . way .... Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb of fate ) ; than the ...
... dramatic way . way .... Much more lively and affecting must be the style of those who write in the height of a present distress ; the mind tortured by the pangs of uncertainty ( the events then hidden in the womb of fate ) ; than the ...
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A Short Critical History Walter Allen. Urawa Richardson's is a dramatic technique ; the letters the characters write to Dram one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles Grandison we ...
A Short Critical History Walter Allen. Urawa Richardson's is a dramatic technique ; the letters the characters write to Dram one another are the equivalent of dramatic speeches ; and while we read Clarissa or Sir Charles Grandison we ...
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... dramatic method ; James compared it to ' the many - fingered grasp of the orange that the author squeezes ' . But ... dramatically presented . Anna is seen from a compara- tively narrow angle of vision , rendered not full face as are the ...
... dramatic method ; James compared it to ' the many - fingered grasp of the orange that the author squeezes ' . But ... dramatically presented . Anna is seen from a compara- tively narrow angle of vision , rendered not full face as are the ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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