Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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Արդյունքներ 84–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... reader , and that in disgust at having indirectly given birth to a vitiated literature , she resolved never again to touch a pen . But most likely this story is not more worthy of credit than the thousand and one others which were ...
... reader , and that in disgust at having indirectly given birth to a vitiated literature , she resolved never again to touch a pen . But most likely this story is not more worthy of credit than the thousand and one others which were ...
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... readers of the present generation , on turning to Mrs. Radcliffe's fictions , find them prolix , improbable , and wearisome , and ' speaking as they find ' they utter their emphatic condem- nation of her claims to respect . It would be ...
... readers of the present generation , on turning to Mrs. Radcliffe's fictions , find them prolix , improbable , and wearisome , and ' speaking as they find ' they utter their emphatic condem- nation of her claims to respect . It would be ...
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... reading the chapters , as the work progressed , James Ballantyne found he most gratified the author , when he said , “ Positively this is equal to Miss Edgeworth ; " and when " Waverley " was published , Scott showed his grati- tude to ...
... reading the chapters , as the work progressed , James Ballantyne found he most gratified the author , when he said , “ Positively this is equal to Miss Edgeworth ; " and when " Waverley " was published , Scott showed his grati- tude to ...
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... reading an old favourite , displeased and shocked even , at my waste of time , and my life so far spent . God be merciful to me a sinner . " . " A night of cough , but of comfort . " Such are the jottings down of this log - book . The ...
... reading an old favourite , displeased and shocked even , at my waste of time , and my life so far spent . God be merciful to me a sinner . " . " A night of cough , but of comfort . " Such are the jottings down of this log - book . The ...
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... reader remember that it is with the deepest regret I recollect in my manhood the op- portunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ...
... reader remember that it is with the deepest regret I recollect in my manhood the op- portunities of learning which I neglected in my youth ; that through every part of my literary career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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