Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 - 407 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 37–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... fashion , circles into which a paltry vanity too often allures the best authors , Mrs. Radcliffe was utterly unknown to the thousands of English who , in London and in the country , were burning to learn something about her . At last ...
... fashion , circles into which a paltry vanity too often allures the best authors , Mrs. Radcliffe was utterly unknown to the thousands of English who , in London and in the country , were burning to learn something about her . At last ...
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... fashion of late years to speak of Mrs. Radcliffe with contempt , and to point to her works as the best possible representatives of stupidity . This unjust scorn to a great extent is a result of the excellence of her works , which are ...
... fashion of late years to speak of Mrs. Radcliffe with contempt , and to point to her works as the best possible representatives of stupidity . This unjust scorn to a great extent is a result of the excellence of her works , which are ...
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... fashion ; his con- cluding years were spent in zealous exertions for the benefit of his tenantry , and poorer neighbours - in improving the system of agriculture , reclaiming waste land , and devising schemes for the education of the ...
... fashion ; his con- cluding years were spent in zealous exertions for the benefit of his tenantry , and poorer neighbours - in improving the system of agriculture , reclaiming waste land , and devising schemes for the education of the ...
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... fashion indiscriminately to praise them . They are however amongst the best specimens of one department of the fictitious art in literature , and will , we doubt not , be much studied five hundred years hence by scholars anxious to ...
... fashion indiscriminately to praise them . They are however amongst the best specimens of one department of the fictitious art in literature , and will , we doubt not , be much studied five hundred years hence by scholars anxious to ...
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... fashion , and under the name of Monk Lewis ( a name he never lost ) was cordially invited into the most exclusive circles . Everyone talked about him , and sometimes , without knowing it , in his presence . One evening at a large party ...
... fashion , and under the name of Monk Lewis ( a name he never lost ) was cordially invited into the most exclusive circles . Everyone talked about him , and sometimes , without knowing it , in his presence . One evening at a large party ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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