Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., M.P.: Containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels Beginning with "Waverley", and an Attempt to Ascertain Their AuthorRodwell and Martin, 1822 - 317 страница |
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... course of circumstantial evidence ; and as the proofs I am about to adduce will , in a great measure , be derived from the characteristic beauties and blemishes of works deservedly admired , it is surely excusable to hope that a ...
... course of circumstantial evidence ; and as the proofs I am about to adduce will , in a great measure , be derived from the characteristic beauties and blemishes of works deservedly admired , it is surely excusable to hope that a ...
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... course , can pronounce it absolutely impossible that the mysterious novelist may have unguessed and peculiar motives for de- siring concealment . I pretend only to point out proba- bilities ; and if I knew of a single argument wholly ...
... course , can pronounce it absolutely impossible that the mysterious novelist may have unguessed and peculiar motives for de- siring concealment . I pretend only to point out proba- bilities ; and if I knew of a single argument wholly ...
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... course of our sympathies is rudely arrested , and we feel as if the author had put upon us the old - fashioned pleasantry of selling a bargain . It is an unsafe thing to venture on a high poet- ical flight in a composition partly ...
... course of our sympathies is rudely arrested , and we feel as if the author had put upon us the old - fashioned pleasantry of selling a bargain . It is an unsafe thing to venture on a high poet- ical flight in a composition partly ...
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... course of his narrative obviously leads to it , but discerns , as by instinct , and seizes with enthusiasm , every slighter opportunity which the incidents afford him for in- troducing such embellishments . Thus he compares the antics ...
... course of his narrative obviously leads to it , but discerns , as by instinct , and seizes with enthusiasm , every slighter opportunity which the incidents afford him for in- troducing such embellishments . Thus he compares the antics ...
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... course ; " the port becomes undistinguishable in the dis- tance , and the hills melt into the blue sky . This is not the professional cant of a vulgar novel - maker , whose moon trembles on the sea of course , whenever his heroine ...
... course ; " the port becomes undistinguishable in the dis- tance , and the hills melt into the blue sky . This is not the professional cant of a vulgar novel - maker , whose moon trembles on the sea of course , whenever his heroine ...
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