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Page 364
Yet I should fail in any attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies , or of the occupations , in which he involved me , or led me the way . An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over ...
Yet I should fail in any attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies , or of the occupations , in which he involved me , or led me the way . An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over ...
Page 395
The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished , because undisturbed ; and this is an end unattainable by the novel . Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem ; but undue length is yet more to be avoided .
The idea of the tale has been presented unblemished , because undisturbed ; and this is an end unattainable by the novel . Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem ; but undue length is yet more to be avoided .
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“ The story , ” if it represents anything , represents the subject , the idea , the donnée of the novel ; and there is surely no “ school ”Mr. Besant speaks of a school — which urges that a novel should be all treatment and no subject .
“ The story , ” if it represents anything , represents the subject , the idea , the donnée of the novel ; and there is surely no “ school ”Mr. Besant speaks of a school — which urges that a novel should be all treatment and no subject .
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Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 21 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 1645?1729 | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 |
| Editor | Sculley Bradley |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Norton, 1956 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1575 pages |
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