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... perhaps , the Wife of Bath's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde , together with his Scottish disciple Henryson's Testament of Cresseid . In these works of Chaucer's there is a warm delight in charac- ter for its own sake and a compassionate ...
... perhaps , the Wife of Bath's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde , together with his Scottish disciple Henryson's Testament of Cresseid . In these works of Chaucer's there is a warm delight in charac- ter for its own sake and a compassionate ...
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... perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life , was always a small seller , Hardy so outraged the conventional ...
... perhaps the public sense of the possibility of further Immortals ; at any rate , Meredith , for all his great reputation and his enormous influence at the end of his life , was always a small seller , Hardy so outraged the conventional ...
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... Perhaps he is only dubiously a novelist , but he has survived better than most . His first book , Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities ( 1838 ) , was a reprinting of sketches contributed to the New Sporting Magazine , of which he was editor ...
... Perhaps he is only dubiously a novelist , but he has survived better than most . His first book , Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities ( 1838 ) , was a reprinting of sketches contributed to the New Sporting Magazine , of which he was editor ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
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