Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... published under the title of " The Myrrour of Modestie " ) is acted once again . Isabel dis- plays the virtue of Susannah , and , when on the point of being condemned of a heinous crime , is shown to be inno- cent by a providential ...
... published under the title of " The Myrrour of Modestie " ) is acted once again . Isabel dis- plays the virtue of Susannah , and , when on the point of being condemned of a heinous crime , is shown to be inno- cent by a providential ...
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... published at Amsterdam , when she had been in the grave more than half a century . And yet , we doubt not , many of our readers have never heard her name till now . Aphra , Aphara , Apharra , or Afra ( for the name is to be found spelt ...
... published at Amsterdam , when she had been in the grave more than half a century . And yet , we doubt not , many of our readers have never heard her name till now . Aphra , Aphara , Apharra , or Afra ( for the name is to be found spelt ...
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... publish her account for the benefit of the world . In obedience to the royal request , she wrote and in due time published " The History of Oroonoko ; or , the Royal Slave . " This is by far the best of her novels , -full of feeling and ...
... publish her account for the benefit of the world . In obedience to the royal request , she wrote and in due time published " The History of Oroonoko ; or , the Royal Slave . " This is by far the best of her novels , -full of feeling and ...
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... published nine edi- tions , and it was issued to the world twelve times without his concurrence . Of the cheaper numbers 80,000 were sold . Englishmen learned , and with fair grace acknowledged the truth of the lesson , that their ...
... published nine edi- tions , and it was issued to the world twelve times without his concurrence . Of the cheaper numbers 80,000 were sold . Englishmen learned , and with fair grace acknowledged the truth of the lesson , that their ...
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... publishers , asking pardon for a delay in returning them , caused by " exceeding illness , " and promising to be prompt with the remainder . There is no evidence that this last effort was ever published . The manuscript was in the ...
... publishers , asking pardon for a delay in returning them , caused by " exceeding illness , " and promising to be prompt with the remainder . There is no evidence that this last effort was ever published . The manuscript was in the ...
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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 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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Էջ 81 - A True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs. Veal, the next Day after her Death, to one Mrs Bargrave, at Canterbury, the 8th of September 1705...
Էջ 186 - It having been observed that there was little hospitality in London ; JOHNSON. " Nay, sir, any man who has a name, or who has the power of pleasing, will be very generally invited in London. The man, Sterne, I have been told, has had engagements for three months." GOLDSMITH.
Էջ 154 - Thy towering spirit now is broke, Thy neck is bended to the yoke. What foreign arms could never quell, By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Էջ 71 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Էջ 215 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: - Go...
Էջ 47 - Hill; it stood on a vast rock of white marble, at the foot of which the river ran a vast depth down, and not to be descended on that side; the little waves still dashing and washing the foot of this rock, made the softest murmurs and purlings in the world...
Էջ 197 - I want to know you, Mr. Sterne, but it is fit you also should know who it is that wishes this pleasure. You have heard of an old Lord Bathurst, of whom your Popes and Swifts have sung...
Էջ 274 - Had the story been kept within the utmost verge of probability, the effect had been preserved, without losing the least circumstance that excites or detains the attention.
Էջ 4 - And yet ten Morte Arthures do not the tenth part so much harme as one of these bookes made in Italie and translated in England.
Էջ 198 - Bramin's portrait over thy writing-desk, and will consult it in all doubts and difficulties? — grateful and good girl! Yorick smiles contentedly over all thou dost : his picture does not do justice to his own complacency. I am glad your shipmates are friendly beings...