Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... excellence of her works , which are still remembered and read , while the productions of nearly all her contemporaries are forgotten . Novel readers of the present generation , on turning to Mrs. Radcliffe's fictions , find them prolix ...
... excellence of her works , which are still remembered and read , while the productions of nearly all her contemporaries are forgotten . Novel readers of the present generation , on turning to Mrs. Radcliffe's fictions , find them prolix ...
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... excellence as a moralist , and a woman of genius , consisted in her scientific and powerful treatment of a class of virtues most difficult to handle - not most beneficial in themselves . Any how she performed her task in such a style ...
... excellence as a moralist , and a woman of genius , consisted in her scientific and powerful treatment of a class of virtues most difficult to handle - not most beneficial in themselves . Any how she performed her task in such a style ...
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... excellence of his female portraits , saying , " we never saw anything like this in you before , Opie ; this must be owing to your wife . " And she was simple enough , and woman enough to be so pleased with the compliment as to chronicle ...
... excellence of his female portraits , saying , " we never saw anything like this in you before , Opie ; this must be owing to your wife . " And she was simple enough , and woman enough to be so pleased with the compliment as to chronicle ...
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... excellence ) , but he had the satisfaction of observing that whatever new melodies and combinations of sound they produced it was his instruments they used . Besides having so enriched literary art , Sir Walter con- ferred another ...
... excellence ) , but he had the satisfaction of observing that whatever new melodies and combinations of sound they produced it was his instruments they used . Besides having so enriched literary art , Sir Walter con- ferred another ...
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... excellence of the author's peculiar power . The ladies in the boxes fainted , shrieked with terror , and were seized with hysteric convulsions . Relating these circumstances Lewis wrote to his mother , " I did not expect that it would ...
... excellence of the author's peculiar power . The ladies in the boxes fainted , shrieked with terror , and were seized with hysteric convulsions . Relating these circumstances Lewis wrote to his mother , " I did not expect that it would ...
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